| Description |
xiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Ideas in context |
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Ideas in context.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Other atomists, other skeptics, and other Epicureans: the problem of determining the context of Gassendi's career -- Part I. Humanist Historiography: 2. Refuting Aristotle is not enough: how to acquire the skills of a French humanist -- 3. Gassendi's Life of Peiresc: the humanist's unattainable goal of writing a universal history -- 4. The growth of Gassendi's Epicurean project: from biography and commentary to a history of philosophy -- Part II. Physics and the History of Philosophy: 5. Unrecognized cultural baggage: the incoherence of contemporary debates about atoms -- 6. Uncertainties of observation and explanation: the role of optical anomalies in astronomy -- 7. Skepticism is based on bad history: Gassendi interprets Epicurus' arguments concerning the existence and qualities of atoms -- 8. Epicurus' conception of proof and Gassendi's historical justification of an atomist metaphysics and physics -- 9. Between culture and nature: was Gassendi a historian, a scientist, an empiricist? -- List of abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- Index of names |
| Analysis |
Epistemology Gassendi, Pierre |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 227-302 |
| Subject |
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
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Atomic theory -- Historiography.
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Atomic theory -- History.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Science -- History.
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| LC no. |
87010899 |
| ISBN |
0521301424 |
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