Pierre Gassendi (French: [pjɛʁ gasɛ̃di]; also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi, Petrus Gassendus; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher...

Gassendi may refer to: Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), French philosopher, scientist and mathematician Jean Jacques Basilien Gassendi [fr] (1748–1828), French...

importantly, God. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a Catholic priest from France who was also an avid natural philosopher. Gassendi's concept of atomism...

mechanical philosophy was largely developed by Gassendi, René Descartes and other atomists. The core of Pierre Gassendi's philosophy is his atomist matter theory...

Gassendi is a large lunar impact crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum. It was named after French astronomer Pierre Gassendi. The...

Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco...

acceptable until the seventeenth century, when the French Catholic priest Pierre Gassendi revived a modified version of them, which was promoted by other writers...

writings of his friend Pierre Gassendi from Latin into French. Initial editions of Bernier's Abregé de la Philosophie de Gassendi were published in Paris...

there to be a thought. One critique of the dictum, first suggested by Pierre Gassendi, is that it presupposes that there is an "I" which must be doing the...

the development of atomism (Lucretius was an important influence on Pierre Gassendi) and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct...

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In modern philosophy, nominalism was revived by Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi. In contemporary analytic philosophy, it has been defended by Rudolf...

Revolution and the work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton, among others, as well as the...

Peter Abelard (/ˈæbəlɑːrd/; French: Pierre Abélard [abelaʁ]; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; 12 February 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French...

theory of light is regarded as the start of modern physical optics. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light which...

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] ; 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, palaeontologist...

Marcin Ruar concerning the Copernican ideas of Pierre Gassendi, finding Ruar already a supporter of Gassendi's position. Among his correspondents were Descartes...

christened them 'Austrian stars' in honour of the house of Habsburg. Pierre Gassendi made his own observations of sunspots between 1618 and 1638. He agreed...

group, together with some of their personal connections. They included Pierre Gassendi, Marin Mersenne and René Descartes. Also involved were the English...

of the learned ed. Isaac Casaubon 1612 Epicurus Philosophy of, ed. Pierre Gassendi 2 vols. Leiden 1649 Euclid, Elementorum Libri 6. priores, London 1620...

Although his theory would later be rejected, he helped the likes of Pierre Gassendi and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur to lay the foundations for removing...

is best known for his promotion of the works of Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi, in whose view of physics he placed his support, though unable to refute...

accurate computations of the positions of the then-known planets. Pierre Gassendi used them to predict a transit of Mercury in 1631, and Jeremiah Horrocks...

(1342–1352): Pierre Roger Pope Innocent VI (1352–1362): Stephen Aubert Pope Urban V (1362–1370): Guillaume de Grimoard Pope Gregory XI (1370–1378): Pierre Roger...

Autodidactus), while vaguely foreshadowing historical materialism. In France, Pierre Gassendi (1592–1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to...

and philosopher Pierre Gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving Epicureanism. Shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by Gassendi, Walter Charleton...

sustain it, further improved upon by Isaac Beeckman, René Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi, became a key principle of Newtonian physics. In the early 17th century...

Garelli Joseph Gabel Jacques Gaffarel Maurice de Gandillac Roger Garaudy Pierre Gassendi Marcel Gauchet Jules de Gaultier Étienne Gilson René Girard André Glucksmann...

Arnauld and the Port-Royal, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Gassendi, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere, and Pierre Bayle. 17th-century French literature 17th-century...