The the Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 Lennon, Thomas M. creator text Electronic books. nju Princeton Princeton University Press 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (435 pages). 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. Cover; Contents. Gassendi, Pierre 1592-1655 Descartes, René 1596-1650 Locke, John 1632-1704 PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern Descartes, René 1596-1650 Gassendi, Pierre 1592-1655 Locke, John 1632-1704 B1887 194 Lennon, Thomas M. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 9781400863396 1400863392 22573/ctt735ntn JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1700238 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=629767 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztsmw http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=790931 http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1700238 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=629767 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztsmw http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=790931 EBLCP 140719 20200709060138.0 ocn884012889 eng