The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 by Thomas M. Lennon

The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715

Thomas M. Lennon

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nonfiction history philosophy
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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 th...

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