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The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions.Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century.She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Tommaso Campanella, John Locke, Pierre Gassendi, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, Henricus Regius, Jean Domat, Comenius, Charles de Saint-Évremond, Pierre Bayle, Antoine Arnauld, Ralph Cudworth, Franciscus Van Den Enden, Géraud de Cordemoy, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Wang Fuzhi, Jakob Böhme, Jacques Rohault, Nicolas Malebranche, Giovanni Botero, Francisco Suárez, François Poullain de La Barre, Huang Zongxi, Molla Sadra Shirazi, Gaspard Van Baerle, Alessandro Pascoli, James Harrington, Henry More, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Mir Damad, Johannes Althusius, Johann Clauberg, Antoine Sandérus, Jacques Gaffarel, Jakob Thomasius, Louis de La Forge, Michelangelo Fardella, Cesare Cremonini, Sokō Yamaga, Mario Bettinus, John Norris, Claude Pithoys, Rajab 'ali Tabrizi, Qazi Sa'id Qommi, Matthias Knutzen. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : René Descartes, né le 31 mars 1596 à La Haye en Touraine (localité rebaptisée Descartes par la suite) et mort à Stockholm dans le palais royal de Suède le 11 février 1650, est un mathématicien, physicien et philosophe français. Il est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la philosophie moderne : il théorise le cogito, fondant ainsi le système des sciences sur le sujet connaissant face au monde qu'il se représente. En physique, il est considéré comme le fondateur du mécanisme, et en mathématiques, de la géométrie analytique. Toutefois, certaines de ses théories ont par la suite été contestées (théorie de l'animal-machine) ou abandonnées (théorie des tourbillons ou des esprits-animaux). Sa pensée a pu être rapprochée de la peinture de Nicolas Poussin pour son caractère clair et ordonné. Sa méthode philosophique et...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Le concept de semence dans les theories de la matiere a la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin a Pierre Gassendi.(Book review)
Author: Craig Martin
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Pierre Gassendi, Louis-François Jauffret, Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, François-Juste-Marie Raynouard, Jean Itard, Louis Éconches Feuillée, François Henri Eugène Daugier, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Joseph-François de Rémerville, Jean Baptiste Arnaud, Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, Félix de Beaujour, Joseph Privat de Molières, François Barrême, Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille Du Luc, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Léon Ménard, Simon-Jude Honnorat, Jean-Baptiste Aubert, Jean-Joseph Expilly, Jean Péna. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Pierre Gassend dit Gassendi, né à Champtercier près de Digne le 22 janvier 1592 et mort à Paris le 24 octobre 1655, est un mathématicien, philosophe, théologien et astronome français. Un cratère lunaire porte son nom. La légende veut que Pierre Gassend ait commencé à se passionner pour les beautés du ciel en gardant les troupeaux de ses parents pendant la nuit. Enfant, il a suivi les cours des écoles de Digne, et fit preuve de grandes dispositions pour les langues et les mathématiques. Il s'inscrit par la suite à l'Université d'Aix-en-Provence, où il suit l'enseignement philosophique de Philibert Fesaye. Premières annéesEn 1612, le collège de Digne lui demande quelques conférences de philosophie. En 1614, Pierre Gassend obtient son doctorat en théologie en Avignon. Il est nommé chanoine de Digne. En 1617, il entre dans les ordres. Il est nommé professeur de rhétorique au collège de Digne. En 1618, Gassend note ses premières observations du ciel lors de l'apparition d'une comète "à tête crépue". Il entre en relation avec l'astronome Joseph de Gaultier de La Valette (1564-1647). En 1620, il établit les tables de la position de Jupiter par rapport aux étoiles fixes...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Gersonides, Pierre Gassendi, Dane Rudhyar, Michel Gauquelin, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere, Françoise Hardy, Jean-Baptiste Morin, Pierre d'Ailly, Bonet de Lattes, Raymond Abellio, Jacques Gaffarel, Louis Turi, Walcher of Malvern, Don Neroman,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 - October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. With 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. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between scepticism and dogmatism. Richard Popkin indicates that Gassendi was one of the first thinkers to formulate the modern "scientific outlook", of moderated scepticism and empiricism. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. Gassendi was born at Champtercier, near Digne, in France. A youthful prodigy, at a very early age he showed academic potential and attended the college at Digne, where he displayed a particular aptitude for languages and mathematics. Soon afterwards he entered the University of Aix-en-Provence, to study philosophy under Philibert Fesaye. In 1612 the college of Digne called him to lecture on theology. Four years later he received the degree of Doctor of Theology at Avignon, and in 1617 he took holy orders. In the same year he answered a call to ...http://booksllc.net/?id=197030 ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Touvier, Pierre Gassendi, Paul Reynaud, Louis Feuillée, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Jacques-Antoine Manuel, Louis Antoine Jullien, Adolphe Blanc, Paul Arène, Blanchette Brunoy, Gaspard Laurent Bayle, Edouard Jacques Burgues de Missiessy, Daniel Spagnou, Joseph de Richery, Bruno Dary, Félicien Champsaur, Gaspard Abeille. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. With 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. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between scepticism and dogmatism. Richard Popkin indicates that Gassendi was one of the first thinkers to formulate the modern "scientific outlook", of moderated scepticism and empiricism. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. Gassendi was born at Champtercier, near Digne, in France. A youthful prodigy, at a very early age he showed academic potential and attended the college at Digne, where he displayed a particular aptitude for languages and mathematics. Soon afterwards he entered the University of Aix-en-Provence, to study philosophy under Philibert Fesaye. In 1612 the college of Digne called him to lecture on theology. Four years later he received the degree of Doctor of Theology at Avignon, and in 1617 he...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=197030 ... Read more

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Title: Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists.(Book review)
Author: Margaret J. Osler
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
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