Huygens and Hofwijck : : The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens / / Henk Boers, Kees Leer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Leer, Kees,; Boers, Henk,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn’s son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists. At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum opus on the universe. At Huygens’s Hofwijck we look at the seventeenth century through the eyes of these two versatile men. With Constantijn and Christiaan, the story is about literature, art, music, politics, the House of Orange, science and life at a seventeenth-century country estate.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ithaka Prize -- Constantijn Huygens in The Hague: a courtier in the capital -- Constantijn Huygens and Hofwijck: a courtier as a landscape architect -- Christiaan Huygens: an inventive scientist at Hofwijck -- Hofwijck’s heirs: care and neglect -- Hofwijck in alien hands: division and impending demolition -- Hofwijck in safe hands: a narrow escape -- The restoration of house and garden from 1914 onwards: a long way up -- The restored garden around 2005: a successful reconstruction -- Map of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century -- Genealogical table -- Literature -- Notes -- Origin of images -- Index of personal names -- The authors -- Colophon