Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi , 1592-1655, French philosopher and scientist. A teacher and priest, Gassendi taught at Digne, Aix, and the Royal College at Paris and held several church offices. He ranked with the leading mathematicians of his day. He violently opposed the authoritarianism of Aristotle, especially in the Exercitationes paradoxicae adversus Aristoteleos (1624). He revived and interpreted the atomic theory of Democritus and Epicurus in terms of the new science, thereby opposing the Cartesian school, and also attempted to reconcile atomism and Epicurean ethics with the teachings of the church.
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Bloomsbury caught in the Harry Potter spell.
Newspaper article from: Financial News; 11/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...Byline: The CFO interview Colin Adams Bloomsbury Publishing Colin Adams, group finance director of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that brought...seeing the film tonight (Monday), at a Bloomsbury private view in London's Leicester...
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Bloomsbury's beasts: the presence of animals in the texts and lives of Bloomsbury.(group of artists and scholars)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...presence of animals in writings by major Bloomsbury figures Virginia and Leonard Woolf and...interspecies relationality that secular Bloomsbury overtly rejected. The presence of these...present but at bay as the members of Bloomsbury explore aesthetic and intellectual realms...
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Bloomsbury masculinity and its Victorian antecedents.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Men's Studies; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...essays and critical analyses of the Bloomsbury group show, there is a continuing and even...the young men who had been the core of Bloomsbury in the talk she gave on "Old Bloomsbury" to the group of her old friends who constituted themselves...
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The Bloomsbury Boom; A New Chapter for a Dowdy London Neighborhood
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...t. I've always thought of Bloomsbury as a sort of big interactive...interested in literary history (the Bloomsbury Group) or imperial loot (the British...people, I've learned about Bloomsbury from books written by its famous...
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Praising and Burying Bloomsbury.
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...outstanding figures of the group. But in personality...any definition of Bloomsbury must take this difference...necessary in any group of friends who maintain...extensive period. But Bloomsbury was not organised...enthusiasms with other groups or individuals...painters and critics of ...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Bloomsbury Show a Bust, Made of Minor Artists.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 6/26/2000; 700+ words
; ...art produced by the Bloomsbury Group in England to be given...show called The Art of Bloomsbury has at last been mounted...subjects beyond their own group was practically nil...more rewarding. The Bloomsbury painters prided themselves...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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BRITISH LITERARY SOCIETY IS RECALLED IN `BLOOMSBURY'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/23/1996; 700+ words
; ...survivors (and firsthand observers) of Bloomsbury. He writes in ``Bloomsbury Recalled'' that he began the book...Wonderfully anecdotal, ``Bloomsbury Recalled'' is an affectionate, forgiving group portrait of people the author knew...
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Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...unpublished "family photographs" of Bloomsbury and friends), if not entirely...journeys and residences of the Bloomsbury group in France. The technique is...1995). What distinguishes Bloomsbury and France is the preoccupation...
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Group discussion; The Listener Effete, overrated snobs? Or maligned cultural revolutionaries? Whatever you think of the Bloomsbury Group, they refuse to go away. This week's selection from the best of BBC Radio is a debate inspired by the latest exhibitions of their art
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/14/1999; 700+ words
; ...Bloomsbury Pie, a history of the Bloomsbury revival RICHARD SHONE: I've always thought of the Bloomsbury Group as modest artists who made a...Surely one of the things that the Bloomsbury Group artists did was to make the...
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The Bloomsbury Collection
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/19/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...were members of the bohemian Bloomsbury Group, a crowd of talented painters, designers and writers. The Bloomsbury entourage quickly adopted Charleston...traditional Laura Ashley prints, the Bloomsbury Collection is 1930s funky and...
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Bloomsbury group
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bloomsbury group name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center...output of its members, the group has remained the focus...S. P. Rosenbaum, The Bloomsbury Group (1975); A. Garnett...
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Bloomsbury Group
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Bloomsbury Group. A loose association of writers, artists...s sister, Virginia Woolf, in the Bloomsbury district of London, which had long...secret intellectual club. However, the Bloomsbury Group had no formal membership and no...
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Bell, Vanessa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...Friday Club as a discussion group for artists. In 1907 she...of the focal points of the Bloomsbury Group . Her early work, up...it has been restored as a Bloomsbury memorial and is open to the...x2019; ( Richard Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits , 1976). Throughout...
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Virginia Stephen Woolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...s home in Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, became a literary and art center...and writers became known as the Bloomsbury group. Roger Fry's theory of art...novelist. Broadly speaking, the Bloomsbury group drew from the philosophic...
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Omega Workshops
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...were at 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, a handsome Robert Adam house...x2019; ( Richard Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits , 1976). A critic...Cuthbert Hamilton (see GROUP X ), and Edward Wadsworth...Lewis a lasting hatred of the Bloomsbury Group . In the second issue...
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