Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 2006| | Copyright

Saul Fisher. Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 131. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 436 pp. index. bibl. $172.50. ISBN: 90-04-11996-5.

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), a French Catholic priest from Haute Provence, is best known as the natural philosopher who restored the philosophy of Epicurus by attempting to make it compatible with Christian orthodoxy. Writing in the style of a Renaissance humanist, he worked out his own philosophy in dialogue with classical thinkers. His ...

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