I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and
Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.
Second, Pierre
Gassendi (1592-1655), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), and Hobbes welcomed mechanical philosophy, on which the universe is a large-scale machine.
Chapter 4 continues the discussion of atoms by asking, "Why does Leibniz abandon his physical atoms of 1676 for a natural philosophy in which 'every body is animate' or at least a collection of such animate bodies?" This chapter offers a very detailed examination of the way in which Leibniz's thought developed from his understanding of Sennert,
Gassendi, and Boyle.
Notes: Named for Pierre
Gassendi, 17th-century astronomer.
but many pious Catholics, like Pierre
Gassendi (who tried reconciling
No lunar feature commemorates Mellan, but Pierre
Gassendi, the scientist who asked him to make the drawings, has a splendid crater.
In particular, look to the seventeenth-century philosophers Rene Descartes, Pierre
Gassendi, and G.
Another was the French philosopher Pierre
Gassendi, whose writings were especially prized by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson.
It was first observed in 1631 by Pierre
Gassendi, a French astronomer.
Gassendi argued that the idea of a perfect thing can be derived from the idea of an imperfect thing by "removing its imperfections." (Gassendi/Cottingham, et.