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- adjective Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch
astronomer of the seventeenth century.
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Examples
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~ -- Those known as the Huyghenian oculars (Fig. 48) will be sufficient for all ordinary work without resorting to the more expensive "compensation" oculars.
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Some makers mount the glass disc together with a circular cover-glass in such a way that when placed in position in any Huyghenian eyepiece of their own manufacture, the scale is exactly in focus for normal vision.
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Dissertation: New Positions of the Stars in the Huyghenian Region of the Great Nebula of Orion, from observations made at the Leander
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Dissertation — A Photometric Survey of the Huyghenian
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Dissertation — "A Photometric Survey of the Huyghenian Region of the Great Nebula of Orion."
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Dissertation: New Positions of the Stars in the Huyghenian
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Observations of stars in the Huyghenian region of the Nebula of Orion — 459 Micrometric measurements of position during the year ending March 1, 1909 — 408 ditto during the year ending March 1, 1910 — 232 photometric determinations of brightness during the year ending March 1, 1911 — 2.
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