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Mersenne’s works and abbreviations
- 1623 [UR], L’Usage de la raison, Paris. Edited by
Claudio Buccolini, Paris: Fayar, 1 volume, 2002. (Scholar)
- 1623, L’Analyse de la vie spirituelle, Paris,
[lost]. (Scholar)
- 1623 [QG], Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim, followed
with Observationes et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti
problemata, Paris.
[available online]
- 1623 [OF], Observationes et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii
Veneti Problemata : in hoc opere cabala evertitur, editio
vulgata… Paris.
[available online]
- 1624 [ID], L’Impiété des déistes,
athées et libertins de ce temps combattue et renversée
de point en point par des raisons tirées de la
philosophie, Paris.
- [New edition of the first part under the title] Questions
rares et curieuses […], Paris, 1630. (Scholar)
- Critical edition by Dominique Descotes, Paris: Champion, 1 volume,
2005
- 1625 [VS], La Vérité des sciences contre les
septiques [sic] ou Pyrrhoniens, Paris.
[available online]
- Critical edition by Dominique Descotes, Paris: Honoré
Champion, 1 volume, 2003.
- 1626, Synopsis mathematica, Paris.
- 1627 [THU], Traité de l’harmonie universelle par
le sieur de Serme, Paris. (Scholar)
- 1630, Traité des mouvemens et de la chute des corps
pesans […], Paris. Reprinted in Corpus: revue de
philosophie, 1986, 2: 25–58.
- 1634 Questions Inouyes, edited by André Pessel,
Paris, 1985, includes
- [QI] Questions Inouyes ou recreation des
sçavans. (Scholar)
- [QH] Questions harmoniques.
- [QT] Les Questions théologiques, physiques, morales et
mathématiques.
- [PHU] Les Préludes de l’harmonie
universelle.
- 1634, Les Méchaniques de Galilée, Paris.
Edited by Bernard Rochot, Paris: Vrin, 1966.
- 1636–1637, Harmonie universelle, Paris (2 volumes).
- [HU] Facsimile of Mersenne’s own annotated copy from the
Bibliothèque des Arts et métiers, introduction by
François Lesure. Paris, 1963 (3 volumes). (Scholar)
- 1638 [NO], Nouvelles Observations physiques et
mathématiques, in Harmonie universelle, volume 2,
addition de 1638—copy of Bibliothèque nationale de
France, Rés V 588. (Scholar)
- 1638, Harmonicorum libri XII […] Harmonicorum
instrumentorum libri IV, Paris.
- 1639, Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée,
Paris. Edited by Pierre Costabel and Michel-Pierre Lerner, Paris: J.
Vrin, 1973.
- 1644, Universae geometriae synopsis and Cogitata
physico mathematica, Paris.
[available online]
- 1647 Novarum observationum physico-mathematicarum, Paris.
[available online]
- 1651 [OC], L’Optique et la catoptrique nouvellement mise
en lumière après la mort de l’autheur, in
La Perspective curieuse du R. P. Nicéron, Paris.
[available online] (Scholar)
- [MC] Correspondance du P. Marin Mersenne, edited by
Cornelius De Waard, René Pintard, and Bernard Rochot, Paris: G.
Beauchesne, 1932–1988, 17 volumes.
Other Primary sources
- [anonymous], L’Anti-bigot ou le Faux Devotieux [=
Quatrains du déiste]. (In Frédéric
Lachèvre, Le Procès du poète Théophile
de Viau : 11 juillet 1623–1er septembre 1625, Paris,
1909–1928, t. 2, p. 91–126. Reprinted Genève,
1968). (Scholar)
- Augustine, 1998, The City of God against the Pagans,
translation R. W. Dyson (trans.), New York: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- Biancani, Guiseppe, 1615, De mathematicarum natura
dissertatio, Bononiae. (Scholar)
- Bruno, Giordanno, 1584, De Infinito, l’Universo e
Mondi, London. (Scholar)
- Coste, Hilarion de, 1649, La Vie du R. P. Mersenne
[…]. Paris. (Scholar)
- [AT] Descartes, Rene, 1897–1910, Oeuvres de
Descartes, 11 volumes, Charles Adam and Paul Tannery (eds),
Paris: Vrin. New edition in 1964–1976. (Scholar)
- Fludd, Robert, 1629, Sophia cum moria certamen
[…], Frankfurt. (Scholar)
- Galilei, Galileo, 1890–1909, Le Opere di Galileo
Galilei. Edizione nazionale, 20 volumes, Antonio Favaro (ed.),
Florence: G. Barbera. (Scholar)
- Gassendi, Pierre, 1630, Petri Gassendi theologi epistolica
exercitatio in qua principia philosophiae Roberti Fluddi medici
reteguntur, Paris. (Scholar)
- Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, 1639, De la vérité
en tant qu’elle est distincte de la révélation, du
vray-semblable, du possible et du faux, Paris [Mersenne’s
French translation of De Veritate, Paris 1624] (Scholar)
- Kepler, Johannes, 1619, Harmonices Mundi, Linz. (Scholar)
- Morin, Jean Baptiste, 1635, Quod Deus sit, Paris (Scholar)
- Pascal, Blaise, 1658, Histoire de la roulette, Paris
- Pascal, Blaise, Oeuvres Complètes, L. Lafuma
(ed.), Paris: Seuill, 1963.
- Roberval, Gilles Personne de, 1636, Traité de
méchanique, Paris. (Scholar)
- Suárez, Francisco, 1597, Disputationes
metaphysicae, Salamanca. (Scholar)
Secondary sources
- Armogathe, Jean-Robert, 1992, “Le groupe de Mersenne et la
vie académique parisienne”, Dix-septième
siècle, n° 44: 131–139. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, “Les preuves de Dieu chez
Mersenne”, Les Études philosophiques, n°
1–2: 161–70. (Scholar)
- Baldin, Gregorio, 2020, La croisée des savoirs –
Hobbes, Mersenne, Descartes, Sesto San Giovanni: éditions
Mimesis. (Scholar)
- Beaude, Joseph, 1980, “Le déiste selon
Mersenne”, in Sergio Bertelli, Libertinismo in Europa,
Milan: R. Ricciardi. (Scholar)
- Beaulieu, Armand, 1995, Mersenne, le grand Minime, Paris:
Les Belles Lettres. (Scholar)
- Beaulieu, Amand, Bailhache, Pierre, Lagrée, Jacqueline,
1994, Études sur Marin Mersenne, special issue of
Les Études philosophiques, 1994(1/2). (Scholar)
- Brown, Harcourt, 1934, Scientific Organizations in Seventeenth-Century France (1620–1680), Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins. (Scholar)
- Buccolini, Claudio, 1997, “Il ruolo del sillogismo nelle dimostrazioni geometriche della Verité des Sciences di Marin Mersenne”, Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres: 7–36. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Mersenne translator of
Bacon?” Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2(1):
33–59. doi:10.7761/jems.2.1.33 (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “Scetticismo e matematica nella
‘Verité des sciences’ de Mersenne”,
Syzetesis VI (2019), 7–30. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019b, ‘Mersenne: Questioning Descartes’, in Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 271–286. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “Mersenne e la metafisica
cartesiana: ‘Objectiones’ e testi inediti”, in
Leonardo Messinese, Agli inizi dell’età moderna.
Marin Mersenne e Emmanuel Maignan, Sienna: Cantagalli, 2020:
103–165. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “L’éxègese
du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianisme”, in A. Del
Prete, A.L. Schino y P. Totaro (eds.), The Philosophers and the
Bible, Leiden: Brill, 233–247.
- Bucciantini, Massimo, 2009, “Descartes, Mersenne et la
philosophie invisible de Galilée”,
Dix-septième siècle, n° 242:
19–30. (Scholar)
- Carraud, Vincent, 1994, “Mathématique et métaphysique: les sciences du possible”, Les Études philosophiques, 1994(1/2): 145–159. (Scholar)
- Chappell, Vere Claiborne (ed.), 1992, Essays on Early Modern
Philosophers (Volume 2: Grotius to Gassendi), New York:
Garland. (Scholar)
- Cohen, H. Floris, 1984, Quantifying Music: the science of
music at the first stage of the scientific revolution,
1580–1650, Dordrecht: Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7686-4 (Scholar)
- Coumet, Ernest, 1975, “Mersenne. ‘Dictions’
nouvelles à l’infini”, Dix-septième
siècle, n°109: 3–32. (Scholar)
- Cozzoli, Daniele, 2010, “The development of Mersenne’s optics”, Perspectives on Science, 18(1): 9–25. doi:10.1162/posc.2010.18.1.9 (Scholar)
- Crombie, Alistair C., 1972, “Mersenne, Marin
(1588–1648)”, in Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed.),
Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, vol. 4. (Scholar)
- –––, 1975, “Marin Mersenne and the
seventeenth-century problem of scientific acceptability”,
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza (First
Series), 17: 186–204. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994a, Style of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts, 3 volumes, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994b, “Marin Mersenne et les
origines du langage”, In Claude Blanckaert, Jean-Louis Fischer,
and Roselyne Rey (eds), Nature, histoire, société :
essais en hommage à Jacques Roger, Paris: Klincksieck, pp.
35–46. (Scholar)
- De Buzon, Frédéric, 1994, “Harmonie et métaphysique: Mersenne face à Kepler”, Les Études philosophiques, 1994(1/2): 119–128. (Scholar)
- De Waard, Cornelius, 1936, L’Expérience
barométrique: ses antécédents et ses
explications, Thouars: Impr. nouvelle.
- Dear, Peter, 1984, “Marin Mersenne and the probabilistic roots of ‘mitigated skepticism’”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 22(2): 173–205. doi:10.1353/hph.1984.0025 (Scholar)
- –––, 1985, “Mersenne and the language of
philosophy”, in Klaus D. Dutz and Ludger Kaczmarek (eds),
Rekonstruktion und Interpretation: Problemgeschichtliche Studien
zur Sprachtheorie von Ockham bis Humboldt Tübinger Beiträge
zur Linguistik, Tübingen: Narr, pp. 197–241. (Scholar)
- –––, 1988, Mersenne and the Learning of the
Schools, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Del Prete, Antonella, 1995, “L’univers infini: les
interventions de Marin Mersenne et de Charles Sorel”, Revue
Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, 185(2):
145–164.
- Duncan, David Allen, 1981, The Tyranny of Opinion Undermined:
science, pseudo-science and skepticism in the musical thought of Marin
Mersenne, PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University. (Scholar)
- Fabbri, Natacha, 2003, Cosmologia e armonia in Keppler e
Mersenne: Contrappunto a due voci sul tema dell’Harmonice
mundi, Florence: Leo S. Olschki. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, De l’utilité de
l’harmonie: filosofia, scienza e musica in Mersenne, Descartes e
Galileo, Pisa: Edizioni della Normale. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, “Questioning Fludd, Kepler and Galileo: Mersenne’s Harmonious Universe”, en F.Bakker, D.Bellis, C.Palmerino (eds.), Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
- Garber, Daniel, 2001, Descartes Embodied, Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511605994 (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “On the Frontlines of the Scientific Revolution: How Mersenne Learned to Love Galileo”, Perspectives on Science, 12(2): 135–163. doi:10.1162/106361404323119853 (Scholar)
- Goldstein, Catherine, 2013, “Routine controversies:
Mathematical challenges in Mersenne’s correspondence”,
Revue d’histoire des sciences, 66(2): 249–273.
doi:10.3917/rhs.662.0249 (Scholar)
- Gouhier, Henri, 1978, Cartésianisme et Augustinisme au
XVIIe siècle, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- Hamou, Philippe, 2008, “Mersenne”, Dictionary of
Seventeenth Century French Philosophers, London: Thoemmes. (Scholar)
- Hauréau, Barthélémy, 1877, Histoire
Littéraire du Maine, vol. VIII, Le Mans: A Lannier. (Scholar)
- Hine, William L., 1973, “Mersenne and Copernicanism”, Isis, 64(1): 18–32. doi:10.1086/351041 (Scholar)
- Koyré, Alexandre, 1973, “Une expérience de
mesure”, Études d’histoire de la pensée
scientifique, Paris: Gallimard. (Scholar)
- Lenoble, Robert, 1943, Mersenne ou la naissance du mécanisme, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- Mace, Dean T., 1970, “Marin Mersenne on Language and
Music”, Journal of Music Theory, 14(1): 2–34.
doi:10.2307/843035 (Scholar)
- Marion, Jean-Luc, 1980, Sur la théologie blanche de Descartes, Paris: Presses universitaires de France. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, “Le concept de métaphysique selon Mersenne”, Les Études philosophiques, 1994(1/2): 129–143. (Scholar)
- Maronne, Sebastien, 2021, “D’une Académie
l’autre. Mersenne, Roberval et quelques autres”,
Dix-septième siècle (2021/3): 11–30.
- Maury, Jean-Pierre, 2003, À l’origine de la
recherche scientifique, Mersenne, Paris: Vuibert.
- Leonardo Messinese, “L’apologia scientifica di P.Marin
Mersenne”, en Leonardo Messinese (ed.), Agli inizi
dell’età moderna. Marin Mersenne e Emmanuel Maignan,
Siena: Cantagalli, 53–102.
- Paganini, Gianni, 2005, “Mersenne plagiaire? Les doutes de
Campanella dans la ‘Verité des sciences’”, en
XVIIe siècle, 229(4): 747–767.
doi:10.3917/dss.054.0747 (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, Skepsis, le débat des modernes sur le scepticisme, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- Palmerino Carla Rita, 2010, “Experiments, Mathematics, Physical Causes: How Mersenne Came to Doubt the Validity of Galileo’s Law of Free Fall”, Perspectives on Science 18(1): 50–76. doi:10.1162/posc.2010.18.1.50 (Scholar)
- Pessel, André, 1987, “Mersenne, la pesanteur et
Descartes”, in Nicolas Grimaldi and Jean-Luc Marion (eds),
Le Discours et sa méthode : colloque pour le 350e
anniversaire du Discours de la méthode, Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France: 163–187. (Scholar)
- Pinchard, Bruno, 1984, “Fragments pour Mersenne (deux
lectures de l’Harmonie universelle du père Marin
Mersenne, 1636)”, Les Cahiers de philosophie, new
series, 1: 75–109. (Scholar)
- Popkin, Richard H., 1956, “Father Mersenne’s war against pyrrhonism”, Modern Schoolman, 34(2): 61–78. doi:10.5840/schoolman195734213 (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, The History of Skepticism from Savonarole to Bayle, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Rochot, Bernard, 1966, “Le père Mersenne et les
relations intellectuelles dans l’Europe du xviie
siècle”, Cahier d’histoire mondiale, vol.
10, p. 55–73. (Scholar)
- Sergescu, Pierre, 1948, “Mersenne l’animateur (8 septembre 1588–1er septembre 1648”, Revue d’histoire des sciences, 2(1): 5–12. doi:10.3406/rhs.1948.2726 (Scholar)
- Taussig, Sylvie, 2009a, “L’Examen de la philosophie de
Fludd de Pierre Gassendi par ses Hors-texte”, Supplementi di
Bruniana et Campanalliana IV, 1, Rome: Fabrizio Serra
Editore, p. 247–340
- –––, 2009b, “La crise de Marin Mersenne :
de la censure à la critique”, Mag philo, 24,
available online. (Scholar)
- Warusfel, André, 1986, “Les nombres de Mersenne”, Corpus: revue de philosophie, 2: 17–23. (Scholar)