Vicente Mut Armengol

Vicente Mut i Armengol (1614–1687) was a Mallorcan astronomer, engineer, historian, mathematician and soldier.

He was born at Palma in 1614, and became a major of his island militia, a mathematician and historian.[1] He wrote several publications on artillery, astronomy[2] and history,[3] and worked on the fortification of Mallorca.

Mutus crater on the Moon is named in his honor.[4]

References

  1. ^ Markham, Clements Robert (1908). The story of Majorca and Minorca. Smith, Elder & Co.. p. 191. http://books.google.com/books?id=E9YwAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 9 April 2009. 
  2. ^ Mut, Vicente (1666). De Sole alfonsino restituto, simul et de Diametris et Parallaxibus Luminarium, semidiametro que Umbrae Terrae Epistola.... Palma: Typis Petri Guasp. http://books.google.com/books?id=OV47ygdI4FQC. Retrieved 9 April 2009. 
  3. ^ Flamsteed, John; Forbes, Eric G.; Murdin, Lesley; Willmoth, Frances (1995). The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal: 1666-1682. CRC Press. p. 929. ISBN 0750301473. 
  4. ^ Blue, Jennifer (25 July 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/. Retrieved 5 August 2007.