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MERSENNE, MARIN

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MERSENNE, MARIN 0588-1648), See also:French philosopher and mathematician, was See also:born of See also:peasant parents near Oize (See also:Sarthe) on the 8th of See also:September 1588, and died in See also:Paris on the 1st of September 1648. He was educated at the Jesuit See also:College of La See also:Fleche, where he was a See also:fellow-See also:pupil and friend of See also:Descartes. In 1611 he joined the See also:Minim Friars, and devoted himself to philosophic teaching in various See also:convent See also:schools. He settled eventually in Paris in 162o at the convent of L'Annonciad'e. For the next four years he devoted himself entirely to philosophic and theological See also:writing, and published Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim (1623); L'Impiete See also:des aisles (1624); La Verite des sciences (1624). These See also:works are characterized by wide See also:scholar-See also:ship and the narrowest theological orthodoxy. His greatest service to See also:philosophy was his enthusiastic See also:defence of Descartes, whose See also:agent he was in Paris and whom he visited in See also:exile in See also:Holland. He submitted to various eminent Parisian thinkers a See also:manuscript copy of the Meditations, and defended its orthodoxy against numerous clerical critics. In later See also:life, he gave up speculative thought and turned to scientific See also:research, especially in See also:mathematics, physics and See also:astronomy. Of his works in this connexion the best known is L'Harmonie universelle (1636), dealing with the theory of See also:music and musical See also:instruments. Among his other works are: Euclidis elementorum libri, &c. (Paris, 1626); Universae geometriae synopsis (1644); See also:Les Mechaniques de See also:Galilee (Paris, 1634) ; Questions inouies ou recreations des savants (1634); Questions theologiques, physiques, &c.

(1634); Nouvelles decouvertes de Galilee (1639); Co itala physico-mathematica (1644). See See also:

Baillet, See also:Vie de Descartes 1691); Pote, Eloge de Mersenne (1816).

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