Gassendi may refer to: Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), French philosopher, scientist and mathematician Jean Jacques Basilien Gassendi [fr] (1748–1828), French... 426 bytes (80 words) - 16:47, 27 July 2023 |
mechanical philosophy was largely developed by Gassendi, René Descartes and other atomists. The core of Pierre Gassendi's philosophy is his atomist matter theory... 12 KB (1,556 words) - 13:53, 3 April 2024 |
Atomism (section Pierre Gassendi) importantly, God. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a Catholic priest from France who was also an avid natural philosopher. Gassendi's concept of atomism... 64 KB (7,634 words) - 15:26, 29 April 2024 |
Gassendi is a large lunar impact crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum. It was named after French astronomer Pierre Gassendi. The... 8 KB (677 words) - 00:11, 1 November 2023 |
writings of his friend Pierre Gassendi from Latin into French. Initial editions of Bernier's Abregé de la Philosophie de Gassendi were published in Paris... 22 KB (3,087 words) - 05:44, 29 March 2024 |
In modern philosophy, nominalism was revived by Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi. In contemporary analytic philosophy, it has been defended by Rudolf... 34 KB (4,370 words) - 09:18, 12 March 2024 |
2000s. The project also relied on sketches drawn by Galileo Galilei, Pierre Gassendi, Johann Caspar Staudacher, Heinrich Schwabe, and Rudolf Wolf. Because... 8 KB (728 words) - 01:27, 16 December 2023 |
Letters on Sunspots (section Pierre Gassendi) christened them 'Austrian stars' in honour of the house of Habsburg. Pierre Gassendi made his own observations of sunspots between 1618 and 1638. He agreed... 80 KB (11,196 words) - 08:48, 27 December 2023 |
Icon Ingeniorum 1649 – René Descartes - Passions of the Soul 1649 – Pierre Gassendi - Animadversiones 1649 – John Milton - Tenure of Kings and Magistrates... 8 KB (868 words) - 16:58, 21 April 2024 |
theory of light is regarded as the start of modern physical optics. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light which... 51 KB (6,334 words) - 20:17, 13 April 2024 |
of Him [God] in heaven." Already in the 17th century, the atomist Pierre Gassendi had adapted Epicureanism to the Christian doctrine. The medieval Church... 63 KB (7,333 words) - 13:29, 18 April 2024 |
Garelli Joseph Gabel Jacques Gaffarel Maurice de Gandillac Roger Garaudy Pierre Gassendi Marcel Gauchet Jules de Gaultier Étienne Gilson René Girard André Glucksmann... 10 KB (1,083 words) - 08:53, 14 April 2024 |
da Vinci (~1500), René Descartes (1637), Benedetto Castelli (1639), Pierre Gassendi (1642), Thomas Hobbes (1655), J. Rohault (1671), Nicolas Malebranche... 18 KB (2,187 words) - 07:21, 30 March 2024 |
the Earth. This idea was corrected by Isaac Beeckman, Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi, who recognized that inertial motion should be motion in a straight... 121 KB (15,363 words) - 05:12, 4 April 2024 |
Peter Abelard (redirect from Pierre Abelard) Peter Abelard (/ˈæbəlɑːrd/; French: Pierre Abélard; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher... 63 KB (7,832 words) - 14:43, 7 April 2024 |
Although his theory would later be rejected, he helped the likes of Pierre Gassendi and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur to lay the foundations for removing... 21 KB (2,774 words) - 17:58, 21 April 2024 |
Autodidactus), while vaguely foreshadowing historical materialism. In France, Pierre Gassendi (1592–1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to... 48 KB (5,458 words) - 17:29, 27 April 2024 |
Atheist Michel Onfray Aristippus the Younger Hermarchus Lucretius Pierre Gassendi Metrodorus of Lampsacus David Pearce Zeno of Sidon Yang Zhu Torbjörn... 6 KB (631 words) - 17:36, 13 February 2024 |