Narcissus Marsh

And I'd always thought that the word microphone was a 19th century invention.

In fact, it had been in use a long time before as the standard term for a certain kind of electronic device ever since at least 1684, which is when an English clergyman called Narcissus Marsh published an introductory essay to the doctrine of sounds in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, which was the kind of leading scientific periodical of the day.

So, I mean, Mosh was a serious person.

He was a gifted musician, but he was also a scientist and a scholar with interests ranging from comets to caterpillars.