Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A man of fashion and culture, he came from a family of multi-talented individuals whose circle included not only leading figures of Dutch society, but also artists and philosophers such as Rembrandt, Locke and Descartes. The Huygens family and their contemporaries would become key actors in the Dutch Golden Age, a time of unprecedented intellectual expansion within the Netherlands. A compelling case to reclaim Huygens from the margins of history.