ESA European Space History - On this day: 16 June 1657, the first pendulum clock was patented by its inventor, Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Although others had worked in
European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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