Gassendi the Atomist
Subtitle: Advocate of History in an Age of Science (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521301428
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Philosophy, Ancient; History Of Science; Philosophy; Science; Atomic theory; Gassendi, Pierre; Political Science / History & Theory; Gassendi, Pierre,; 1592-1655; History
First sentence: Ever since Bernier's popular French translation of his work in the 1670s, Gassendi has had to be defended against an unusual charge, the charge that he was only a historian of philosophy.