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He clashed with his contemporary [[Descartes (nonfiction)|Descartes]] on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. | He clashed with his contemporary [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|Descartes]] on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. | ||
He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between skepticism and dogmatism. | He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between skepticism and dogmatism. | ||
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Revision as of 21:19, 7 January 2017
Pierre Gassendi (also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician.
While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals.
He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631.
The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.
He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity.
He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between skepticism and dogmatism.
He wrote against the magical animism of Robert Fludd, and judicial astrology.
Richard Popkin indicates that Gassendi was one of the first thinkers to formulate the modern "scientific outlook", of moderated skepticism and empiricism.
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René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi clash over the possibility of certain knowledge.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Judicial astrology (nonfiction)
- Mathematics (nonfiction)
- René Descartes (nonfiction)
- Robert Fludd (nonfiction)
External links:
- Pierre Gassendi @ Wikipedia