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Vandaag uit! #Eeneeuwvanlicht, mijn leven van Christiaan #Huygens – 🔭 🪐 🎲🎲 🕰️ 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🏴 ⛵️ 🧭 🎹 ☄️ 👽 🧮. Bedankt @uitg_thomasrap @debezigebij en vertalers Ineke van den Elskamp en Gertjan Wallinga.
Ontdekkingen!
Uitvindingen!!
Nieuwe theorieën!!!
Bittere prioriteitsgeschillen. Internationale oorlogen. Wispelturige beschermheren. Gruwelijke terechtstellingen. Enorme pruiken.
#Eeneeuwvanlicht, mijn biografie van #ChristiaanHuygens. Deze week uit!
@EdnaMacLoy @johandewittNL Bedankt.
Chocolade, geen kans, jammer. Maar heb je ooit dit gezien?
@LauraCummingArt They are magnificent. Here’s a painting I liked (@astrupfearnley Museet, I think; by Einar Berger). Midnight sun, but no northern lights when I was there.
Picture quiz!
Daily until Easter Monday, details of pictures that are shown or get a mention in my forthcoming #DutchLight: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe. First some general scene-setting . . . where are these places?
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Andrew Marvell writing in 1677 about naval trouble-stirrer and rotten-borough MP for Newtown, Isle of Wight, Sir Robert Holmes, ‘cursed beginner of the two Dutch wars’. Luckily, we don’t have MPs like this now (one for @MarinaHyde?). (Portrait by Lely @RMGreenwich)
I’ve been enjoying this series on painter techniques, so far featuring Coorte, Turner, van Eyck. I expect you would too, @LauraCummingArt @philipcball @SellaTheChemist https://t.co/BMGxZ0RrrO
#otd 1688 William of Orange invades with his army, landing in Devon. His secretary Huygens wrote: ‘We landed at a village called Braxton [Brixham]. It is very simple. Its few decayed houses are built of stone ... We dined this evening on very tough fricassé of lamb.’
Aha. An inspiring distraction has arrived, @AmySackville’s Painter to the King. My third book about Velasquez in recent months, but why not? This is a detail of The Surrender of Breda.