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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Gassendi, Pierre
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A French mathematician and philosopher, born in Provence; declared against scholastic methods out of deference to the empirical; controverted the metaphysics of Descartes; became the head of a school opposed to him; adopted the philosophy of Epicurus and contributed to the science of astronomy, and was the friend of Kepler, Galileo, and Hobbes; was a great admirer of Bayle, the head of his school, a school of Pyrrhonists, tending to materialism (1592-1655).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gassendi, Pierre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gassendi-pierre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gassendi, Pierre'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gassendi-pierre.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
