TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lennon,Thomas M.
TI  - The Battle of the Gods and Giants: the Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715
T2  - Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
SN  - 9781400863396
AV  - B1887 
U1  - 194 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Gassendi, Pierre,
KW  - Descartes, René,
KW  - Locke, John,
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Contents
N2  - 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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