Lennon, Thomas M. <br/><br/>
The Battle of the Gods and Giants  the Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715.  [electronic resource] : 

 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  2014. 
 - 1 online resource (435 pages). 
 - Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy .
 - Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy. .
<br/><br/> Cover; Contents. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400863396 1400863392 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt735ntn  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655. <br/>Descartes, René, 1596-1650. <br/>Locke, John, 1632-1704. <br/>Descartes, René, 1596-1650. <br/>Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655. <br/>Locke, John, 1632-1704. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B1887 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>194