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 saw no need to make an explicit distinction between the evidence of vestiges and the evidence of witnesses, but he certainly did not think that the scar ‘testifies’ to the wound.
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
He did, though, travel widely, including a visit to London in 1661, and a stay of five months in Paris in 1655, when he met many leading scientists, including Pierre Gassendi.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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