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This paper introduces a modern version of the classical Huygens' experiment on synchronization of pendulum clocks. The version presented here consists of two monumental pendulum clocks-ad hoc designed and fabricated-which are coupled through a wooden structure.
The pendulum clock was one of the most important metaphors for early modern philosophers. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) discovered his pendulum clock in 1656 based on the principle of isochronism discovered by Galileo (1564-1642).
In this volume, Dr. Kurt Wiesenfeld explains how his research group has examined synchronization by means of reconstructions of Huygens’ pendulum clocks. In another paper, Dr. Filip Buyse argues that Spinoza was in contact with Christiaan Huygens during the period of his spectacular invention.
Galileo, Huygens and the Pendulum Clock: Isochronism and Synchronicity 8 argues in his paper that Spinoza might also have been influenced by the physics of oscillating pendulums in his theory of emotions. Fig. 1: This is a drawing of Huygens‟s Pendulum Clock, which the Dutch physicist included in his Horologium (1658)
Christiaan Huygens worked on the problem of creating and perfecting clocks, especially pendulum clocks, for nearly forty years, from 1656 to 1693.
Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, invented the pendulum clock in 1657[1]. Until his invention of the accurate clock, the matter of timekeeping hindered advances in many fields of science and expeditions.
Throughout his experimental work, the pendulum was never very far from Galileo's thought. But there was also the question of its practical use. A pendulum could be used for timing pulses or acting as a metronome for students of music: its swings measured out equal time intervals.
