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

by Lynn Sumida Joy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522390
• ISBN13: 9780521522397
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"