Mersenne, Marin
Links
Marin Mersenne
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mersenne.html
Biography of the Minim friar and his contributions to number theory. Includes references, pictures, and cross-references to other topics.
Luke's Marin Mersenne Page
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne/LukeMirror/mersenne.htm
A collection of pages and links concerned with this philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Marin Mersenne
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10209b.htm
Article by C.A. Dubray reviewing the intellectual career of this learned Minim friar.
Horror Vacui? Marin Mersenne
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/vuoto/emerse.html
Brief article focusing on Mersenne's role in the early scientific debate on this problem of the vacuum.
Biographies of Mathematicians: Marin Mersenne
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/biomerse.htm
Reviews his life and mathematical contributions.
The Bassoons in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle
https://www.idrs.org/Publications/DR/DR10.2/DR10.2.Semm.html
Scholarly paper by Richard Semmens, reconstructing the history of early modern woodwind instruments with reference to Mersenne's text.
Wikipedia: Marin Mersenne
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Mersenne
Entry from this openly-edited online reference tool.