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Document Title & Author: Document 2 Marin Mersenne, French monk and natural
philosopher, letter to his noble patron

When Martin Mersenne was writing a letter to his noble patron, What was going
it was in the Renaissance period, but specifically it was during the on when the
time in the scientific revolution. This helps understand the author wrote this
document? How
document more because Mersenne mentions the name ¨Galileo¨
does this help you
Which was an important scientist during the science revolution
better understand
Historical because he helped figure out that the earth revolved around the
the document?
H Context sun, which meant that earth wasn't in the center.

Martin Mersennes intended audience was not only his noble Identify the
patron but to everyone such as people/civilians. This impacts person or the
Martins message because hes basically defending Galileo's group the author
expects to inform
ideas/experiments meaning he must really care about this idea
or influence. How
and is positive that it is true.
does this impact
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the author’s
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The author is Martin Mersenne. ¨Marin Mersenne was a French Who is the
polymath, whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is author? How did
perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne the author’s
background (race,
prime numbers, those which can be written in the form Mₙ = 2ⁿ −
gender,
1 for some integer n. ¨ As he was well known back then in the
socioeconomic
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class) impact their
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He created his source from the scientist named Galileo Galilei. Why did the
This effected the content of the document because of Galileo's author create the
idea and confirming it has been experimented over 100 times. source? How does
that affect the
content of the
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Other specific historical information outside of the document can What specific
connect to the document such as the idea that the earth revolves historical
around the sun and not the other way around where the sun information
outside of the
revolves around the earth. This helped better understand
document can
because this idea was the main idea all through out the
you connect to
document trying to convince.
the document?
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Information better help you
understand this
document?