Marin Mersenne

It was written to Father Marin Mersenne, who was overseeing the book's publication.

Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France Kim Willsher in Paris 2010

On a trip around Europe in the mid-1630s, Hobbes met Marin Mersenne in Paris.

Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009

Descartes emerges in 1625 in Paris, his notes revealing that he was in contact with Father Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), a member of the Order of Minims.

Descartes' Life and Works Smith, Kurt 2007

Mersenne Primes are named for Marin Mersenne, who referenced them in his Cogitata Physica-Mathematica in 1644.

Mind Hacks: In Our Time analyses artificial intelligence 2005

His work gave support to the alchemical plea for a new science and it was viewed with alarm by Johannes Kepler, Marin Mersenne, and Pierre

ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968

His work gave support to the alchemical plea for a new science and it was viewed with alarm by Johannes Kepler, Marin Mersenne, and Pierre Gassendi.

Alchemy 1968

Marin Mersenne and his friend, Gassendi, offered a constructive resolution to the skeptical crisis, insisting that while skepticism could not be overcome on the epistemological level, it could be ignored on the practical and scientific level.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968

Marin Mersenne was trained at the Jesuit school at

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN 1968

Père Marin Mersenne [14] has given a detailed description of these varieties and of the musette, with very clear illustrations of the instruments and all their parts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Corroboration was also afforded by Marin Mersenne and

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various