id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1078 Christiaan Huygens - Wikipedia .html text/html 13777 2211 66 In the analysis of the Scientific Revolution this appears as a mainstream position, at least from the founding of the Royal Society to the emergence of Newton, and was sometimes labelled "Baconian", while not being inductivist or identifying with the views of Francis Bacon in a simple-minded way.[71] After his first visit to England in 1661, when he attended a meeting of the Gresham College group in April and learned directly about Boyle's air pump experiments, Huygens spent time in late 1661 and early 1662 replicating the work. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1078.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1078.txt