Huygens

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Huygens can refer to:

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1629 - 1695, son of Constantijn Huygens
Huygens' principle
Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer 1596 - 1687, father of Christiaan Huygens
Cassini-Huygens, mission to Saturn and Titan
Huygens probe is the portion of the Cassini-Huygens mission which landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005
2801 Huygens, an asteroid named after the astronomer
Huygens Software, a microscope image processing package
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, (1563-1611) was a Dutch voyager and historian