Marin Mersenne 1588 – 1648
Marin Mersenne (1588 – 1648) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Early Modern Philosophy.
Marin Mersenne was a French Minim friar, mathematician, and philosopher and the central node of the European scientific correspondence of the first half of the seventeenth century. From his cell at the Place Royale in Paris, he carried on a vast exchange of letters with Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes, Pascal, Fermat, Huygens, and most of the other leading natural philosophers of his day, circulating ideas, problems, and replies across national and confessional lines. His own writings, including the Quaestiones in Genesim, the Harmonie Universelle, and the Cogitata Physico-Mathematica, defended a mechanical philosophy compatible with Catholic orthodoxy and pioneered the study of musical acoustics.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Early Modern Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Marin Mersenne:
“The sciences are united in nature, even when they are divided in our books.”
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Attributed to Marin Mersenne:
“Mathematics is the surest road to natural philosophy.”
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Attributed to Marin Mersenne:
“Skepticism is healthy when it serves the search for truth, deadly when it ends in despair.”
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Attributed to Marin Mersenne:
“Music is mathematics made audible.”
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Attributed to Marin Mersenne:
“A republic of letters is the proper home of the philosopher.”
Marin Mersenne by topic
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