Marin Mersenne BirthdayThursday, September 08, 1588 BirthplaceOizé, Maine DiedTuesday, September 01, 1648 NationalityFrench Known for Acoustics Mersenne, Marin Born Sept. 8, 1588, in Oizé, Maine; died Sept. 1, 1648, in Paris.
Marin Mersenne and the Telescope . French physicist.
French physicist. Mersenne was educated in a Jesuit school and subsequently entered the Order of St. Francis.
The correct pronunciation of Marin was a surprise to me. Marin Mersenne BirthdayThursday, September 08, 1588 BirthplaceOizé, Maine DiedTuesday, September 01, 1648 NationalityFrench Known for Acoustics Mersenne, Marin Born Sept. 8, 1588, in Oizé, Maine; died Sept. 1, 1648, in Paris. Mersenne and Pierre Gassendi “estimated the speed of sound as 1,038 feet per second, a passable approximation for the time.” (Gassendi, DSB, 5, 288) ↩ Mersenne, DSB, 9, 319. The diagrams below show the Gregorian and Cassegrain configuration of mirrors used in modern reflecting telescopes. Marin Mersenne on The Abbe du Bos, whose Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture was not only influential in France where it was published in 1719, but also in England where it appeared in translation in 1748, compared music and poetry and found that musical sound … In 1636, Father Marin Mersenne published Harmonie Universelle, a mathematical study of music. Marin Mersenne and the Telescope . It’s therefore the only example of how early French keyboard music may have actually sounded to the first audiences. (3 August 1996) The name of Marin Mersenne. The instrument played on this historically important recording is a new construction following the specifications published by Marin Mersenne in the 17th century.
You don't expect to find major advances in the design of telescopes in a book on music. Robert Boyle - (1660) discovered that sound waves must travel in a medium Sir Isaac Newton - (late 1660's) formulated a relationship between the speed of sound in a medium and the density and compressibility in a medium. Recorded and spoken by Timour Jgenti, et ici en Français (3 August 1996) The name of François Édouard Anatole Lucas. This was two years before Galileo … Leonardo DaVinci-(1500) discovered that sound travels in waves Marin Mersenne-(1640) first measured the speed of sound in air. It also proposed configurations of mirrors that could be used to produce either telescopic effects or burning mirrors. Marin Mersenne - (1640) first measured the speed of sound in air. Mersenne was educated in a Jesuit school and subsequently entered the Order of St. Francis. Marin Mersenne (Sept 8, 1588 to Sept 1, 1648) Mersenne, a French priest of the Minimite order, has been called “the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s” (by the historian Peter L. Bernstein) and one of the “architects of the European scientific community” (by the Dictionary of Scientific Biography).
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) is often referred to as the father of acoustics, in particular because he gave the first correct (published) mathematical description of a vibrating string (Harmonicorum Libri in 1636).
The diagrams are from Harmonie Universelle, published in 1636 by Father Marin Mersenne [_4_] .
Mersenne's work on reflecting telescopes was very advanced.
Robert Boyle-(1660) discovered that sound waves must travel in a medium Sir Isaac Newton-(late 1660's) formulated a relationship between the speed of sound in a medium and the density and compressibility in a medium. Marin Mersenne (Cerca de Oizé, 1588-París, 1648) Filósofo y científico francés. Amigo íntimo de Descartes y (desde 1611) jesuita, fue profesor de filosofía en Nevers (1614-1620) y pasó luego a un convento parisino.
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