Gassendi
Americannoun
noun
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As a young man, the real Cyrano was taught by the idiosyncratic polymath Pierre Gassendi and mixed in free-thinking "libertine" circles.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022
Like Democritus, the Epicureans, Hobbes, and Gassendi, Locke believed the dynamics of pleasure and pain motivated humankind.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
According to atomists such as Gassendi, light was caused by a stream of tiny particles emerging from bright objects, like the Sun, and impinging on the eyes of the viewer.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Gassendi is certainly right to emphasize the importance of arguments by analogy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The first transit of Mercury was seen by Gassendi in 1631; of Venus by Horrocks in 1639.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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