Gassendi the Atomist
Subtitle: Advocate of History in an Age of Science (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780521522397
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
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.