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Samuel [de] Sorbière (1615–1670) was a French physician and man of letters a philosopher and translator who is best known for his promotion of the works of Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi in whose view of physics he placed his support though unable to refute René Descartes but who developed a reputation in his own day for a truculent and disputatious nature. Sorbière is regarded often by his position on ethics and disclosure about medical mistakes.
