Vicente Mut y Armengol
Vicente Mut y Armengol ( Latinized Mutus ; born October 25, 1614 in Palma ; † April 27, 1687 ) was a Mallorcan astronomer , engineer, historian, mathematician and officer of the Spanish crown.
Mut's father was Juan Odon Mut, from a family of notables from Llucmajor on Mallorca, his mother Maria Armengol. Courage attended the Jesuit College in Palma and then studied mathematics and law. After completing his studies, he took up the military career, where he worked primarily as a military engineer and mathematician and eventually reached the rank of Sergeant Major ( Sargento mayor ).
He wrote both military-technical and astronomical works, but above all historical ones, in particular a history of the Kingdom of Mallorca in two volumes ( Historia del Reyno de Mallorca , 1650).
The crater of the moon Mutus is named after him.
Works
- El principe en la guerra y en la paz: copiado de la vida del Emperador Iustiniano (Madrid 1640)
- Historia del Reyno de Mallorca (1650)
- Vida de la Vener. Madre Soror Isabel Cifra, fundadora de la casa de la edvcacion de la Civdad de Mallorca (Mallorca 1655)
- Arquitectura militar (1664)
- Observationes motuum coelestium, cum adnotationibus astronomicis, et meridianorum differentiis from eclypsibus deductis (Mallorca 1666)
- Adnotaciones sobre los compendios de la artilleria (Mallorca 1668)
literature
- Archivo Biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica II 632,295-298 (WBIS), sv Mut
- J. Dameto, V. Mut, G. Alemany: Historia general del reino de Mallorca. 2nd ed. Vol. 3, Palma 1841, pp. VII ff, digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Courage y Armengol, Vicente |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish astronomer, engineer, historian, mathematician and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1614 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palma |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1687 |