| Title |
Gassendi, the atomist : advocate of history in an age of science / Lynn Sumida Joy. |
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| Imprint |
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
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| Description |
xiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Content |
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| Series |
Ideas in context.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Other atomists, other skeptics, and other Epicureans : the problem of determining the context of Gassendi's career -- Refuting Aristotle is not enough : how to acquire the skills of a French humanist -- Gassendi's Life of Peiresc : the humanist's unattainable goal of writing a universal history -- The growth of Gassendi's Epicurean project : from biography and commentary to a history of philosophy -- Unrecognized cultural baggage : the incoherence of contemporary debates about atoms -- Uncertainties of observation and explanation : the role of optical anomalies in astronomy -- Skepticism is based on bad history : Gassendi interprets Epicurus' arguments concerning the existence and qualities of atoms -- Epicurus' conception of proof and Gassendi's historical justification of an atomist metaphysics and physics -- Between culture and nature : was Gassendi a historian, a scientist, an empiricist? |
| Local Note |
Gift of Larry Principe, August 2024. |
| Subject(s) |
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
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Atomic theory -- History.
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Science -- History.
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Atomism.
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