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The Dutch physicist and astronomer Christian Huygens (some sources spell his first name as Christiaan) invented the pendulum in 1656. His work was inspired by Galileo’s discovery of the pendulum effect, which states that an object takes the same amount of time to complete one full swing no matter how wide the swing is.
