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The English Mersenne. John Collins, mathematician and physicist, so called from Marin Mersenne, the French philosopher (1624–1683).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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