
Pierre Gassendi
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 370 years ago |
Date of birth | January 22,1592 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Champtercier |
France | |
Date of died | October 24,1655 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Influenced | Thomas Hobbes |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | |
John Locke | |
Walter Charleton | |
Influenced by | René Descartes |
Aristotle | |
Galileo Galilei | |
Epicurus | |
Johannes Kepler | |
Lucretius | |
Job | Physician |
Philosopher | |
Mathematician | |
Education | Aix-Marseille University |
Leipzig University | |
Avignon Université: Campus Hannah Arendt | |
Books | The selected works of Pierre Gassendi |
Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue and Liberty | |
The mirrour of true nobility & gentility | |
Disquisitio metaphysica | |
The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) | |
Vie et Moeurs d'Epicure | |
School | Aristotelianism; Epicureanism; Atomism; Empiricism; Nominalism; Materialism; Corpuscularianism; Theological voluntarism; |
Notabl idea | vital heat |
Influences | René Descartes |
Aristotle | |
Galileo Galilei | |
Epicurus | |
Johannes Kepler | |
Lucretius | |
Franciscus Patricius | |
Era | 17th-century philosophy |
Interests | Philosophical Logic |
Physics | |
Ethics | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1321944 |
Pierre Gassendi Life story
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals.