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returned to liis native country, where he fpent the re¬ 
mainder of his life in fcientific purfuits and employments. 
The laft work which Huygens committed to the prefs 
was his KojwoSsago; ; fvc de Terris Ccdefiibvs , eorurnque Or- 
tiatu, Cenjedura, 4X0. concerning a plurality of worlds, 
and the probability that the planets are inhabited ; but 
he died, while it was printing, in 1695, when in the fix- 
ty-feventh year of his age, fo that this work did not make 
its appearance till the year 1698. 
By h is will he left his. mathematical writings to the 
tmiverfity of Leyden ; and requefted M M. de Voider and 
Fullenius, the former of whom was profefi'cr ot philoio- 
■phy and mathematics, at Leyden, and the other at Frane- 
ker, to examine them, and publifh fitch as they fnould 
think proper. 'Accordingly, in 1703, they publifhed, 
Opufcula P-oJlhuma ; qua continent Dioptricam ; Commentaries 
de Vitris Jigurandis ; Differ lationem de Corona, & ParheLus ; 
Tradatum de Motu & de Vi Ccntrifuga ; Defcriptionsm Auto¬ 
mata Planctarii, 4to. The fecond piece-in this collection, 
relating to fhe art of forming and polithing glaffes for te- 
lefcopes, to which the author had greatly applied him- 
ielf, was written by him in Low Dutch, and tranflated 
into Latin by the celebrated Boerhaave. In the year 
,1704 were publithed, in 4to. the author’s . Opera Varia, 
confiding of the greater part of the pieces which he had 
publifhed feparately. They are divided into four parts ; 
the fir It of which contains the pieces relating to mecha¬ 
nics ; the fecond, thofe relating to geometry ; the third, 
thole relating to aftronomy ; and the fourth, thofe which 
could not be claffed under either of thofe titles. This 
impreflion was edited by s’Gravefande, who inferted fe- 
veral additions to the pieces contained in it, extracted 
from Huygens’s manuferipts. In 1728 the fame editor 
publifhed a new colleftion of Huygens’s pieces, entitled, 
Opera Rcliqua, in 2 vols. 4to. The firft volume contains 
the author’s treatifes on light and gravity, tranflated into 
Latin ; and the fecond his Opera Pojlhuma, originally pub- 
iifhed in 1703, but with fome correftions and additions. 
HUYG'ENS (Gomarus), a celebrated profeffor of the 
uriiverfity of Louvain, born at Liere in 1631. When 
he was fifteen years of age, he was lent to the univerfity 
■of Louvain, where he entered on his courfe of philofophy 
in the college du Faucon. The duties of this profeffor- 
fiiip he difeharged for fixteen years with the higheft re¬ 
putation ; and with fo much dilintereftednefs, that he 
contented himfelf with the fimpleit necefiaries, and de¬ 
voted the profits of his place, which were confiderable, 
to benevolent and charitable ufes. In 1668, he began to 
confine his ftudies folely to divinity, to which he had ne¬ 
ver been inattentive fince the time when he finifhed his 
academical courfes. During the fame year he was ad¬ 
mitted to the degree of doctor of divinity, and deputed 
to proceed to Rome, to defend the privileges of the uni¬ 
verfity of Louvain before pope Clement X. Having 
fucceeded in the objeft of his million, he returned to 
Louvain, where he was inceflantly occupied in theologi¬ 
cal ftudies tilt the year 1677, when he was appointed pre- 
lident of the college of pope Adrian VI. in that univer¬ 
fity. In this ftation he conduced himfelf in the molt 
commendable manner towards the members of his infti- 
tution; and was confulted much in cafes of confcience, 
and reforted to as confeffor, by vaft numbers of perfons, 
not only in Louvain, but throughout the whole diocefe 
of Mechlin. Thel'e occupations did not prevent him 
from publiihing a variety of works, which are held in high 
elteem by, the catholics inclinable to the principles of 
Janfenius. In' 16S2, his catholic majefty, informed of his 
great merit, beltowed on him a canonry of the church of 
St. Peter at Louvain, where he died in 1702, aged feventy- 
one. The principal of his productions were, 1. Metliodus 
ranittendi Peccata, 1674, 12010. 2. Injlrutlio Theologica 
D. G. H. valde utilis ac falutaris Pajloribus ac ConfeJJ'ariis , 
fecundum LLcftrinam S S. Augujlini, Thoma, See. 1687. 3. 
Confer end a Theologica, 3 vols. izmo. 4. Thefes on Grace, 
VOL.X. No. 628 . 
60 Pi 
4to. 5. A courfe of theology, under the title of Breves Ob. 
J'ervationes, which is neverthelefs extended to 1 5 vols. 121110. 
publilhed at different periods from the year 1695. 
HUYN'GEN, or Huy'nen, a town of Germany, in the 
Lower Rhine, and archbifhoprrc of Cologne .- ten miles 
fouth-eaft of Munfter Eyffel, and twenty-five fiouth of 
Cologne. 
HUY'SUM (John van), a celebrated painter, born at 
Amfterdam in 1682. -He was educated under his father, Jufi- 
tus van Huyfum the elder, an artifh of confiderable talents, 
who praftifed various branches of the art, but was chiefly 
eminent as a flower-painter. John bent the whole force 
of his genius to this department, in which he attained 
an excellence that leaves him without a rival. Beginning 
with the laudable refolution of making fame his object 
rather than money, he grudged no time or pains in ren¬ 
dering his works as perfect as the art would admit ; and 
indeed, higher perfection in imitating the beauties of na¬ 
ture is hardly conceivable. The merit of his works was 
fo confpicuous, that they foon obtained high prices from 
the connoifleurs ; and at length none but perfons of the 
greateft opulence could become pofl’dfors of his pieces. 
He alfo painted landfcapes in a fuperior ftyle, carrying his 
imitation of nature fo far as to diftinguifh the different 
fpeciesof trees by their leafing. He never took a difciple 
except one lady named Haverman, of whofe proficiency 
lie at length grew jealous. He died in 1749. 
IIUZ, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HUZAN'KA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodeck : thirty-fix miles fouth-ealtof Novogrodeck. 
To HUZZ, v. n. [from the found.] To buzz ; to murmur. 
HUZZA', interj. A fhout; a cry of acclamation.—The 
huzzas of the rabble are the fame to a bear as they are to 
a prince. L'EJirange. 
All fame is foreign, but of true defert; 
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: 
One felf-approving hour whole years outweighs 
Of ftupid llarers and of loud huzzas. Pope. 
To HUZZA', v. n. To utter acclamation. 
To HUZZA', v.a. To receive with acclamation. — He 
was huzzaed into the court by feveral thoulands of wea¬ 
vers and clothiers. Addifon. 
HUZ ZAB, [Heb. molten.] The name of a place; the 
name of a people; the name of a man. Nahum ii. 7. 
HUZZA'ING, f. The aft of uttering exclamations of 
joy; an exclamation expreflive of approbation. 
HUZZ'ING, f. The aft of buzzing; a humming noife. 
HWARF, a town of Sweden, in the province of Weft 
Gothland : lixty-three miles eaft of Uddevalla. 
HWE, a river of Denmark, in the duchy of Slefwick, 
which runs into the North Sea twelve miles north-weft 
of Slefwick. 
H WEN, or Ween, a fertile ifland of Sweden, to which 
country it was granted by the treaty of Rofchild, in the 
year 1658, fituated in the Sound. It is about 8160 paces 
in circumference, and at a diltance has the appearance of 
a high mountain. This ifland was granted by Frederic 
II. king of Denmark, to Tycho Brahe, the celebrated 
aftronomer, with a callle, called Uranienburg, erefted for 
the purpole of making obfervations, in which he refided 
upwards of twenty years. The whole ifland contains but 
one parifh, or village, containing about fifty houfes : five 
leagues north of Copenhagen. Lat. 55. 54. N. Ion. 12. 38. 
E. Greenwich. 
HY'ACINTIRyi [vo;»t(t$oc, Gr. hyacintke, Fr. hyacinthus, 
Lat.] A flower. See Hyacinthus. 
HY'ACINTH, f. A pellucid gem, whofe colour is red 
with an admixture of yellow. Seethe article Mineralogy. 
HYACIN'THIA, an annual folemnity at Amyclae, in 
Laconia, in honour of Hyacinthus and Apollo. It con¬ 
tinued for three days, during which time the grief of the 
people was fo great for the death of Hyacinthus, that they 
did not adorn their hair with garlands during their fefti- 
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