Pierre Gassendi

Tags: Philosopher.

Pierre Gassendi (also Pierre Gassend Petrus Gassendi; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher priest scientist 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. He was also an active observational scientist publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631.

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birth date

1592-01-22

birth place

Provence, Champtercier

death date

1655-10-24

death place

Paris

era

17th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118537695

influenced

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Charleton

influenced by

Aristotelianism, Epicureanism

LCCN Id

n/82/5624

main interest

Ethics, Physics, Philosophical logic

region

Western philosophy