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	Gassendi - LoveToKnow 1911
		GASSENDI 1 [[[Gassend], Pierre]] (1592-1655), French philosopher, scientist and mathematician, was born of poor parents at Champtercier, near Digne, in Provence, on the 2 2nd of January 1592.
		Gassendi was one of the first after the revival of letters who treated the literature of philosophy in a lively way.
		Gassendis Erkenntnistheorie and seine Stellung zum Materialismus (1893) and "Gassendi's Skepticismus" in Philos.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gassendi (1890 words)

	Mercurius in Sole Visus - Pierre Gassendi
		Gassendi's conception of inertia was closely related to his atomism, which entails a denial of special qualities or "natures" for different kinds of matter, some (celestial objects) preferring circular motion and some (terrestial objects) preferring linear motion.
		It was this spirit that motivated the famous experiment performed by Gassendi, in which a cannonball was dropped from the mast of a ship sailing uniformly in a straight line, and the ball was observed to land at the foot of the mast, giving a concrete demonstration of Galileo's principle of relativity.
		Admittedly, Gassendi didn't apply strict empiricism consistently, since at other times he admitted the possibility of general abstract ideas that have no foundation in the senses, but his outlook was definitely more solidly empirical than the prevailing Scholasticism of his immediate predecessors, and more thoroughly materialistic than the dualism of Descartes.
	www.mathpages.com /home/kmath274.htm (1236 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Gassendi was the son of Antoine Gassend and Francoise Fabry.
		Gassendi was ordained a priest in 1616 or 17.
		Cardinal Alphonse Richelieu was influencial in the appointment of Gassendi to the professorship in mathematics in 1645.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/gassendi.html (1179 words)

	20th WCP: ‘Probabilist’ Deductive Inference in Gassendi's Logic
		While something is surely amiss in calling deductivist inference "probabilistic," it seems Gassendi has hit upon a now-familiar, sensible point—namely, the use of deductive reasoning in empirical contexts, while providing certain formal guarantees, does not insulate empirical arguments from judgment by the measure of belief which we invest in their premises.
		Such a view is possible for Gassendi to begin with because he is among those early Moderns who allow that we may have warrant for claims though we are not certain of them; this is the 'degrees of belief' concept which figures prominently in the development of modern probability theory.
		While it seems Gassendi has all the elements of this familiar story, he falls short because he is convinced it is a syllogistic form special to deductive argument that determines when we are looking at a piece of reasoning we can call 'probabilistic'.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Logi/LogiFish.htm (2833 words)

	Pierre Gassendi
		That Gassendi was neither "the father of materialism" nor a sceptic in the proper sense is shown by Kiefi (see Baldwin, op.
		That as an amateur astronomer, Gassendi was a persevering, attentive, and intelligent observer, is evident from his notebook carefully kept from 1618 until 1652 and filling over 400 pages.
		Gassendi was esteemed by all, and loved by the poor for whom he provided in lifetime and in his last will.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/gassendi,pierre.html (795 words)

	Pierre Gassendi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Gassendi understands this reasoning as one person's inference from his or her indubitable recognition of cognitive activity, to the claim that he or she exists as the selfsame seat of such activity.
		Gassendi saw that the motion of the dropped stone at a sustained speed—in the absence of any contrary force or obstacle—is an instance of inertial motion, albeit one where the motion is compositional (describing the parabola).
		The precise place of Gassendi in the history of early modern philosophy and science is only partly articulated by recent scholarship, which has tended to focus on one aspect or another of his thought, and to portray Gassendi primarily as an opponent of one or another contemporary, to the neglect of his positive theses.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/gassendi (15583 words)

	Horror Vacui? - Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) - IMSS
		The discoveries performed by the microscope in those years were interpreted, by Gassendi and many of his contemporaries, as a serious validation of atomism, and contributed to the enormous success which the Canon of Digne's theses had with European intellectuals of the day.
		Gassendi's research is of outstanding interest above all in the fields of astronomy and dynamics.
		Gassendi developed an interesting notion of space, which he considered as an infinite three-dimensional void, absolutely immobile and homogeneous, which exists in itself, even in the absence of bodies to define the parts.
	galileo.imss.firenze.it /vuoto/egasse.html (370 words)

	SFL ORG. News Center Gassendi crater - clue on the thermal history of Mare Humorum
		Gassendi is an impact feature located on the near side of the Moon, at the northern edge of Mare Humorum.
		Gassendi is a scientifically interesting site because it offers lunar landers the possibility of sampling ancient highland rocks (in the crater's central peak) as well as providing ages for both the Humorum impact basin and the Gassendi crater itself.
		Gassendi was considered as one of the three potential sites for the Apollo 17 mission, that eventually touched ground in the Taurus-Littrow valley.
	www.sflorg.com /spacenews/sn070606_01.html (530 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Gassendi
		Gassendi, "the Bacon of France", is specially note-worthy for his opposition to the Aristotelean philosophy, and for his revival of the Epicurean system.
		With a Galilean telescope he observed the transit of Mercury in 1631, predicted by Kepler, by projecting the sun's image on a screen of paper.
		Gassendi was in correspondence with Cassini, Galilei, Hevel, Kepler, Scheiner, Vallis, and other scientists.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06391b.htm (805 words)

	GASSENDI ( PIERRE GASSEND )
		In altri termini, la fiducia cartesiana nelle capacità esplicative del concetto di sostanza appare a Gassendi un'indebita concessione a un sapere metafisico che, seppure in forma diversa, ripropone i presupposti dogmatici della tradizione aristotelica.
		Verso il 1630 Gassendi, pur rimanendo fedele a questi presupposti di ascendenza scettica, si accosta progressivamente all' epicureismo nel tentativo di ritrovare il fondamento teorico dei nuovi indirizzi scientifici, dopo il fallimento dell' aristotelismo e del cartesianesimo.
		Gassendi, che non dimentica di essere un religioso, apporta tuttavia alcune correzioni alla tradizione epicurea, in modo da renderla compatibile con il cristianesimo.
	www.filosofico.net /gassendi.htm (641 words)

	Pierre Gassendi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for publishing the first official observations of the Transit of Mercury in 1631.
		Gassendi became one of the first to treat the literature of philosophy in a lively way.
		Gassendis Erkenninistheorie and seine Stellung zum Materialismus (1893) and "Gassendi's Skepticismus" in Philos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Gassendi (2044 words)

	Gassendi
		There are three strands of Gassendi's philosophy which are quite notable.
		Gassendi's obections to Descartes' Meditations can be found in a variety of editions of the Meditations which include the "Objections and Replies" including Haldane and Ross and the newer Cottingham translation of Descartes' works.
		Osler argues that the differences between Gassendi's account of the created world and that of Descartes directly reflects differences in their theological presuppositions.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/gassendi.html (567 words)

	Pierre Gassendi
		In 1631, Gassendi became the first person to observe the transit of a planet across the Sun, viewing the transit of Mercury which Kepler had predicted.
		Gassendi then spent some years travelling through Provence with the duke of Angoulême, governor of the region.
		Gassendi's tendency towards the empirical school of speculation appears more pronounced here than in any of his other writings.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/pierre-gassendi.php (767 words)

	Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 52
		When Gassendi is right on the terminator, its southern wall stays dark much longer than the rest of its walls, making it obvious how that side of the crater has sunk along with the mare it borders.
		Gassendi is a "landmark" feature, easily recognized and useful for orientation.
		To the southwest of Gassendi, Rupes Liebig and its extension, Mersenius rille II, traced a north-south chord across the mare as far south as Mersenius G. Mersenius II was less distinct, but I could trace Mersenius I all the way from just north of Mersenius D to about 16 degrees south latitude.
	www.shallowsky.com /moon/rukl52.html (394 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Crater Gassendi
		The smaller crater at the top of the image is Gassendi A. The age of crater Gassendi is estimated to be 3.6 ± 0.7 billion years.
		Gassendi is a scientifically interesting site offering the possibility of sampling ancient highland rocks in the crater's central peak as well as providing ages for both the Humorum basin impact and the crater Gassendi impact.
		Gassendi was considered as one of the three potential landing sites for the Apollo 17 mission, which eventually landed in the Taurus-Littorw valley.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39693 (630 words)

	No. 1898: Pierre Gassendi
		Gassendi's greatest contribution was breathing life back into the atomic theory.
		As an engineer, I like to look at anything as rarified as Gassendi's philosophy and say, "Yes, but where does the cement come out?" In Gassendi's case, the cement came out of the mixer in the form of the robust experimental science established during the mid-1600s.
		That's why Gassendi was able to give us a number for the speed of sound on a normal day at Earth's surface.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1898.htm (523 words)

	Gassendi - Pierre Gassendi - Biography - Information - Links - Dr Robert A. Hatch
		Gassendi lived in Paris from 1628-1632 where he made a number of life-long friendships, notably with Boulliau, Mersenne, Mydorge, Naude, and La Mothe le Vayer.
		Significantly, in 1644 Gassendi accepted the prestigious position of Professor of Mathematics at the College royale, which at least one friend advised he decline, suggesting he had better ways to spend his time.
		Gassendi eventually published other works and commentaries on Epicurus but his clearest statement did not appear until after his death as the Syntagma philosophicum, published in his Opera omnia (1658).
	web.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/11-ResearchProjects/gassendi/06rp-g-bio.htm (703 words)

	Pierre Gassendi
		Gassendi was born in Champtercier, near Digne in Provence; he was educated first at Digne, then at home, and finally at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence and Avignon, where he studied philosophy and theology.
		Although Gassendi shared much with Descartes, including an opposition to the Aristotelianism of the time, he was best known as a champion of Epicurus, whose philosophy he developed in a way that attempted to bring it into line with Christian thought.
		At the centre of this position is a mechanistic, atomistic view of the world, though Gassendi added to it a belief in the immortality of a spiritual soul which lay outside the physical.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~worc0337/authors/pierre.gassendi.html (716 words)

	Pierre Gassendi
		Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655), filósofo e cientista, rejeitou a superespeculação na filosofia de Descartes e defendeu o retorno à doutrina de Epicuro, isto é ao empirismo (enfatizando a experiência dos sentidos), ao hedonismo (sustentando ser o prazer o bem), e à física corpuscular (com a realidade feita de partículas atômicas).
		Gassendi sustentava que o conhecimento do mundo exterior depende dos sentidos, apesar de que seja através da razão que o homem pode derivar muita informação além da evidência ganha empiricamente.
		Gassendi fez reviver o interesse no atomismo antigo defendendo uma explicação estritamente mecanicista do mundo físico.
	www.geocities.com /cobra_pages/fm-gassendi.html (713 words)

	Enciclopedia Católica
		Gassendi, “el faro de Francia”, fue especialmente notable por su oposición a la filosofía aristotélica, y por la resurrección que hizo del sistema epicúreo.
		Gassendi tuvo correspondencia con Cassini, Galilei, Hevea, Kepler, Scheiner, Vallis, y otros científicos.
		Gassendi fue estimado por todos, y por los pobres, por quienes se preocupó durante su vida y a quienes dejó en su testamento.
	www.enciclopediacatolica.com /g/gassendipierre.htm (916 words)

	Gassendi biography
		Gassendi was Principal at the College of Digne from 1612 to 1614, then he received a doctorate in theology from Avignon and was ordained in 1615, one year later.
		In addition to these positions in the church, Gassendi was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Aix in 1617.
		Gassendi first met Mersenne in 1624 when he visited Paris.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Gassendi.html (310 words)

	Gassendi the Atomist - Cambridge University Press
		Gassendi's training as a humanist historiographer enabled him to formulate a conception of the history of philosophy in which the rationality of scientific and philosophical inquiry depended on the historical justifications which he developed for his beliefs.
		Gassendi's Life of Peiresc: the humanist's unattainable goal of writing a universal history; 4.
		Between culture and nature: was Gassendi a historian, a scientist, an empiricist•; List of abbreviations used in the notes; Notes; Index of names.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521301424&ss=sam (300 words)

	Gassendi
		Gassendi, Bacon, and Galileo all practiced the “New Philosophy” that was central to the Scientific Revolution, but they went about their treatment of scriptural truth in different ways.
		Due to the fact that Gassendi voluntarily chose a career in the priesthood, it may be safely assumed that he was a Christian who believed in God and a God-created Cosmos.
		Not only did Gassendi’s atomism bring science into accordance with Christian teachings, but the fact that it could not be refuted by any observational data made it difficult to debunk, adding to its formidability.
	utminers.utep.edu /jatarin/gassendi.htm (1758 words)

	Imago Mundi - Pierre Gassendi.
		Gassendi (L'abbé Pierre), de son vrai nom Gassend, philosophe et savant né à Champtercier, près de Digne, le 22 janvier 1592, mort à Paris le 24 octobre 1655.
		Gassendi fut à la fois théologien, métaphysicien, historien, astronome, naturaliste et mathématicien.
		Gassendi avait également pris à partie Robert Fludd et avait publié contre les doctrines de l'auteur du Summum bonum une spirituelle Epistolica exercitatio (Paris, 1631, in-12), qui débute par un remarquable exposé des principes du mysticisme
	www.cosmovisions.com /Gassendi.htm (1866 words)

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		Father: Agr Gassendi was the son of Antoine Gassend and Francoise Fabry.
		Scientific Disciplines: Primary: Asn, NPh Subordinate: Phc From as early as 1625 until his death Gassendi occupied himself with rehabilitation of the philosophy of Epicurus.
		Technological Connections: Crt Gassendi corrected the geographical coordinates of the Mediterranean Sea.
	humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /humftp/E-text/Descartes/gassendi.bio (1214 words)

	Shoestring Astronomy - L13 - gassendi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Gassendi is fine example of a floor fractured crater.
		The fracturing of the floor is believed to be caused by upward pressure of magma below the crater as it takes advantage of the weak spot in the crust.
		Gassendi is located on the northern edge of Mare Humorum.
	www.shoestringastronomy.com /lunar/L013.htm (76 words)

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