Gassendi the Atomist : Advocate of History in an Age of Science

Name: Gassendi the Atomist
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521522397
Price: 8700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521522397

by Lynn Sumida Joy

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Format Paperback / softback

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ISBN-10 0521522390

ISBN-13 9780521522397

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 8th, 2002

Print length 328 Pages

Weight 498 grams

Dimensions 15.50 x 22.90 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 History of ideas History of ideas Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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This account of Gassendi's life and work offers a provocatively new perspective from which to view the influence of humanism on seventeenth-century thought. As Professor Joy makes clear, his reform of philosophy raised questions about the aims of science, which we ourselves are still asking.

Scholars in the early seventeenth century who studied ancient Greek scientific theories often drew upon philology and history to reconstruct a more general picture of the Greek past. Gassendi's training as a humanist historiographer enabled him to formulate a conception of the history of philosophy in which the rationality of scientific and philosophical inquiry depended on the historical justifications which he developed for his beliefs. Professor Joy examines this conception and analyzes the nature of Gassendi's historical training, especially its relationship to his career as a physicist and astronomer. She shows how he rehabilitated Epicurean atomism by bringing together the arguments of the Greek atomists and those of his contemporaries. In doing so, he produced an account of the natural world which made it an object of empirical study and mechanical explanation.

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