Real Tennis evolved rather than was invented. It began as a ball game played in the twelfth century and continued to evolve for the next several centuries. It has been suggested the game was first played by monks in cloisters, but there is no evidence of this. The first well known historical figure to play the game, however, was Henry V.
The father of modern tennis is Walter Clopton Wingfield
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Robert Goddard is considered the father of modern rocketry.
Antoine Lavoisier is considered the father of modern chemistry.
Mustafa Kemal Attaturk is considered the father of modern Turkey.
The father of modern taxonomy is Carl Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. His writings were in Latin.
Rene Descartes is often considered the father of modern philosophy. His work on methodical doubt and skepticism laid the foundation for modern philosophy's focus on individualism and the mind-body problem.
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Alan Turing is considered to be the father of the modern computer. He was a mathematician and is the creator of the Turing machine which was the precursor to modern computers.
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