Gassendi, Pierre | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Brett, G. S. Gassendi. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908, 307 p.
Focuses mainly on Gassendi's Physics; discusses later views of Gassendi with an emphasis on Leibnitz.
Egan, Howard T. Gassendi's View of Knowledge: A Study of the Epistemological Basis of His Logic. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984, 179 p.
Examines both Gassendi's Syntagma and his earlier works to develop an account of his logic based on provisional knowledge.
Hervey, Helen. “Hobbes and Descartes in the Light of Some Unpublished Letters of the Correspondence between Sir Charles Cavendish and Dr. John Pell.” Osiris 10 (1952): 67-90.
Demonstrates the importance of Gassendi in the transmission of Epicureanism to England; reveals the animosity between Hobbes and Gassendi, on one side, and Descartes.
Jones, Howard. Pierre Gassendi, An Intellectual Biography. Nieuwkoop: B....
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