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 after him.^[4]

[edit] 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 2009-04-09. 
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 2009-04-09. 
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 (July 25, 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/. Retrieved 2007-08-05. 

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