Engraving depicting Marin Mersenne performing an experiment to prove the rotation of the earth: ball fired from vertical cannon did not fall back down the barrel. Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist. Dated 17th Century

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