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brought together the results of over twenty years of studying and patient observation of the heavens. The treatise includes a description of planetary movements according to the simple elliptical hypothesis of
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and histories of the monasteries and hospitals. In 1683 Mut realized a detailed map of
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with great diligence, and gives valuable details respecting the administration of the island at different periods. His history covers the ground from the accession of King
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Mut wrote several publications on artillery, astronomy and history, and worked on the fortification of
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was parabolic, explaining its movement as analogous to that of a projectile deserves special mention. Mut thus joined in the proposals of other astronomers, such as
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in the study of the trajectory of projectiles and one of the first references to the new mechanics in the printed
Spanish literature of the seventeenth century.
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with some observations on another comet that appeared in 1665. His observations of the comet of 1664 and his resulting hypothesis that its
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with Mut's discussion of
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Observationes motuum caelestium cum adnotationibus astronomicis et meridianorum differentiis ab eclypsibus deductis
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Memoria biográfica de los mallorquines que se han distinguido en la antigua y moderna literatura
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to the suppression of the 'Comunidades,' and contains spirited accounts of the raids of
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and took part in repairing the walls of Palma. He served with distinction in the
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Joan B. Binimelis, Vicenç Mut i els mapes murals de
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Map of the island of Majorca delineated by Vicente Mut and dated 1683.
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at the Jesuit college of Montesión at Palma. In 1629 he entered the
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Werner-Francisco Bär; Vicenç M. Rosselló y Verger (2016).
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422:. The second of the cited works,
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609:The story of Majorca and Minorca
509:. Palma: typis Petri Guasp. 1649
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815:Bover de Roselló, Joaquín María
680:Blue, Jennifer (25 July 2007).
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