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Article: Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Antonia LoLordo. Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 284 pp. index. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978-0-521-86613-2.
Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) was a French Catholic priest and an important member of the community of natural philosophers in the first half of the seventeenth century. Along with his contemporary Rene Descartes (1596-1650), he is one of the founders of the mechanical philosophy of nature, which they proposed as a replacement for the Aristotelianism that had provided philosophical foundations for natural philosophy since at least the thirteenth century. Gassendi approached the ...