Pierre Gassendi (French: [pjɛʁ gasɛ̃di]; also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi, Petrus Gassendus; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher...
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Gassendi may refer to: Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), French philosopher, scientist and mathematician Jean Jacques Basilien Gassendi [fr] (1748–1828), French...
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mechanical philosophy was largely developed by Gassendi, René Descartes and other atomists. The core of Pierre Gassendi's philosophy is his atomist matter theory...
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Atomism (section Pierre Gassendi)
importantly, God. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a Catholic priest from France who was also an avid natural philosopher. Gassendi's concept of atomism...
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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...
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Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Revolution and the work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, and Isaac Newton, among others, as well as the rationalist philosophy...
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acceptable until the seventeenth century, when the French Catholic priest Pierre Gassendi revived a modified version of them, which was promoted by other writers...
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Letters on Sunspots (section Pierre Gassendi)
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...
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] listen) (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist...
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da Vinci (~1500), René Descartes (1637), Benedetto Castelli (1639), Pierre Gassendi (1642), Thomas Hobbes (1655), J. Rohault (1671), Nicolas Malebranche...
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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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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...
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and philosopher Pierre Gassendi wrote two books forcefully reviving Epicureanism. Shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by Gassendi, Walter Charleton...
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the Earth. This idea was corrected by Isaac Beeckman, Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi, who recognized that inertial motion should be motion in a straight...
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Marcin Ruar concerning the Copernican ideas of Pierre Gassendi, finding Ruar already a supporter of Gassendi's position. Among his correspondents were Descartes...
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Atheist Michel Onfray Aristippus the Younger Hermarchus Lucretius Pierre Gassendi Metrodorus of Lampsacus David Pearce Zeno of Sidon Yang Zhu Torbjörn...
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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...
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Garelli Joseph Gabel Jacques Gaffarel Maurice de Gandillac Roger Garaudy Pierre Gassendi Marcel Gauchet Jules de Gaultier Étienne Gilson René Girard André Glucksmann...
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of Him [God] in heaven." Already in the 17th century, the atomist Pierre Gassendi had adapted Epicureanism to the Christian doctrine. The medieval Church...
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Peter Abelard (redirect from Pierre Abelard)
Peter Abelard (/ˈæbəlɑːrd/; French: Pierre Abélard; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher...
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of the learned ed. Isaac Casaubon 1612 Epicurus Philosophy of, ed. Pierre Gassendi 2 vols. Leiden 1649 Euclid, Elementorum Libri 6. priores, London 1620...
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Arnauld and the Port-Royal, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Gassendi, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere, and Pierre Bayle. 17th-century French literature 17th-century...
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Icon Ingeniorum 1649 – René Descartes - Passions of the Soul 1649 – Pierre Gassendi - Animadversiones 1649 – John Milton - Tenure of Kings and Magistrates...
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Autodidactus), while vaguely foreshadowing historical materialism. In France, Pierre Gassendi (1592–1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to...
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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...
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