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
Gassendi is certainly right to emphasize the importance of arguments by analogy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The reason that Gassendi and a good many of his contemporaries were willing to accept the idea of a vacuum in the 1640s was that there was experimental evidence that ‘the void’ existed.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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