Portrait of Marin Mersenne, a French monk of the Minimes order, physicist and mathematician. He is considered as the "father of acoustics" (Mersenne's laws in 1637). Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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