* Astronomy

Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne (8 September 1588 - 1 September 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (Bohn 1988:225). Mersenne was "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s."
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