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Pierre Gassendi

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Gender Male
Death369 years ago
Date of birth January 22,1592
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Champtercier
France
Date of died October 24,1655
DiedParis
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
BooksThe 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
SchoolAristotelianism; Epicureanism; Atomism; Empiricism; Nominalism; Materialism; Corpuscularianism; Theological voluntarism;
Notabl ideavital heat
Influences René Descartes
Aristotle
Galileo Galilei
Epicurus
Johannes Kepler
Lucretius
Franciscus Patricius
Era17th-century philosophy
InterestsPhilosophical Logic
Physics
Ethics
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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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