so I did not take any pictures,
but here is that one of my co-workers, Lee sent to me
yesterday, taken in his back garden in Sidcup, Kent in the UK, it is of the Orion
Nebula, which is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way south of
Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, it
was discovered by Christian
Huygens who was born at the Hague on April 14, 1629, (the same birthday as myself), and died
in the same town on July 8, 1695 his name is sometimes written as Huyghens, but
his main work was his Horologium
Oscillatorium published at Paris in 1673, the first chapter is
devoted to pendulum clocks, in 1675 Huygens proposed to regulate the motion of
watches by the use of the balance spring, in the theory of which he had been
perhaps anticipated in a somewhat ambiguous and incomplete statement made by
Hooke in 1658, watches or portable clocks had been invented early in the
sixteenth century, and by the end of that century were not very uncommon, but
they were clumsy and unreliable, being driven by a main spring and regulated by
a conical pulley and verge escapement; moreover, until 1687 they had only one
hand, the first watch whose motion was regulated by a balance spring was made
at Paris under Huygens's directions, and presented by him to Louis XIV,
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