Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known as Mach speed) and the optical illusion known as Mach bands. Wikipedia
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Lenins work Materialism and Empirio-criticism played a
decisive part in combating the Machist revision of Marxism. www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/