Definition:Académie Parisienne
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The Académie Parisienne was an informal academic society established in $1635$ by the Franciscan friar Marin Mersenne, sponsored and encouraged by Cardinal Richelieu.
It consisted of some $140$ correspondents from around Europe, and formed a hub of mathematical interaction through which the leading minds of the time could communicate with each other.
Mersenne's copious correspondence held it all together.
It was to form the nucleus of the later more formal Académie des Sciences, which was chartered in $1666$.
Notable Members
- Thomas Hobbes ($\text {1588}$ – $\text {1679}$)
- Étienne Pascal ($\text {1588}$ – $\text {1651}$)
- Marin Mersenne ($\text {1588}$ – $\text {1648}$)
- Girard Desargues ($\text {1591}$ – $\text {1661}$)
- Pierre Gassendi ($\text {1592}$ – $\text {1655}$)
- Galileo Galilei ($\text {1564}$ – $\text {1642}$)
- René Descartes ($\text {1596}$ – $\text {1650}$)
- Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri ($\text {1598}$ – $\text {1647}$)
- Pierre de Carcavi ($\text {c. 1600}$ – $\text {1684}$)
- Pierre de Fermat ($\text {c. 1601}$ – $\text {1655}$)
- Gilles Personne de Roberval ($\text {1602}$ – $\text {1675}$)
- Bernard Frénicle de Bessy ($\text {c. 1604}$ – $\text {1674}$)
- Evangelista Torricelli ($\text {1608}$ – $\text {1647}$)
- Blaise Pascal ($\text {1623}$ – $\text {1662}$)
Also see
- Results about Académie Parisienne can be found here.
Sources
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.12$: Mersenne ($\text {1588}$ – $\text {1648}$)