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 and Locke never thought of themselves as founding an empirical philosophy, although we would say that is what they were doing.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
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
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