Mersenne and the Learning of the SchoolsPeter Dear1. Introduction
2. Humanism and the Implications of Rhetoric
3. Dialectic, Probabilism, and “Mitigated Scepticism”
4. Aristotelian Science and the Metaphysics of Mathematics
5. Saint Augustine and Universal Harmony
6. Mechanics, Music, and Harmony
7. Philosophical Systems, Essentialism, and the Language of Philosophy
8. Mersenne’s Later Career: A Philosophical Agenda and Its Limitations
9. Summary and Conclusions
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