Brewer's: Mersenne

(2 syl.). The English Mersenne. John Collins, mathematician and physicist, so called from Marin Mersenne, the French philosopher (1624-1683).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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