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An extraordinarily ingenious and thought-provoking man, Mersenne (1588-1648) was beneficial to the intellectual world of the 17th century in many ways. His name will forever be linked to the names of Fermat, Pascal, Roberval, Gassendi, Hobbes, Descartes, Cavalieri and Torricelli. Mersenne played an important role in the development of Cartesian methodology, Cartesian rationalism and mechanism. His main theoretical work