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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
The History of Science - The Lone Inventor
If you had taken up to a second year of physics courses, you would have heard his name. Huygens principle is one of the fundamental principles and optics. There's certain personalities, certain human beings that stand out in science. I find it difficult to believe that had Galileo not existed, that eventually someone like HuyGens, for instance, given the context of the times, would have been able to do what he did.
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