Abstract
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) is remembered chieflyasaone-man scientific clearing house—the Internet of his day. During the first half of theseventeenth century, when mathematical physics was taking its first tentative stepsguided by Descartes and Galileo, “Mersenne did more to propagate emerging newsciences of acoustics, pneumatics, and ballistics than anyone else of his time” [
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