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The Battle of the Gods and Giants [electronic resource] : the Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715.

By: Series: Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophyPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (435 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400863396
  • 1400863392
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Battle of the Gods and Giants : The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715.DDC classification:
  • 194 20
LOC classification:
  • B1887
Online resources: Summary: By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects.
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By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects.

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