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 | |
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| 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.
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