Article ID: CBB107185007

Huygens’s Carriole: Urban Commodity, Authorship, and the Intelligence of Carriage Design (2022)

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Abstract Christiaan Huygens spent five years (between 1663 and 1668) deeply involved in carriage design and manufacturing. This method of transportation, essential to living a honest bourgeois life in European cities, especially in Paris, where the streets’ muck was glorious, took many forms and concerned more than specialized artisans. Several members of Huygens’s family took an interest in improving this technology. The article, in detailing Huygens’s commitment to a distinct type of urban commodity, seeks to exemplify the savant’s early method of creating new technical knowledge. Questions were raised from theoretical and craft perspectives; securing patents and authorship became a crucial feature of knowledge making. From such concerns regarding a fast-evolving and transformative urban commodity, the article argues that Huygens’s approach to carriage design is another instance that conditioned him to respond effectively to the several priority disputes he would face during his lifetime regarding other technological devices, especially his balance-spring watch.

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Authors & Contributors
Brock, David C.
Cangany, Catherine
Davids, Karel A.
Dekker, Rudolf
Hansen, John F.
Holbrook, Daniel
Journals
History and Technology
Antiquity
Archives of Natural History
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Brill
Louisiana State University Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University Press of Florida
Renaissance Books
Concepts
Technology
Manufacturing
Industrialization
Technology and culture
Industrial engineering
Authorship
People
Huygens, Christiaan
Huygens, Constantijn
Rheticus, Georg Joachim
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
16th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Japan
England
Great Britain
Rome (Italy)
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
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