Principal Works
Exercitationes Paradoxicae adversus Aristoteleos (philosophy) 1624
Parhelia sive soles quator spurii, qui circa verum appaverunt Romae anno MDCXXIX, de XX (philosophy) 1630
Petri Gassendi Theologi Epistolica Exercitatio, in quo Principes Philosophiae Roberti Fluddi Medici relegantur et ad recentes illius libros adversus R.P.F. Marinum Mersennum, Ordenes Minimorum Sancti Francisci de Paula sareptos responditur (philosophy) 1630
De Mercurio in Sole viso et Venere invisa Parisiis anno (1631) (philosophy) 1632
Instructions de M. Gassend au R. P. Ephrem de Nevers Capucin et a Frere Alexandre d'Angoullesme pour les observations celestes (philosophy) 1636
De apparente magnitudine solis humilis et sublimis (philosophy) 1636; reprinted in Epistolae quatuor 1642
De Nicolai Claudii Fabrici de Peiresc, Senatoris Aquisextiensis, Vita [Life of Peiresc] (biography) 1641
Objectiones quintae Petri Gassendi diniensis ecclesiae praepositi et acutissimi philosophi [Objections] (philosophy) 1641
De Motu impresso a Motore translato (philosophy) 1642
De apparente magnitudine solis humilis et sublimis, Epistolae quatuor (philosophy) 1642
Novum stellae circa Jovem visa, et de eisdem P. Gassendi judicium (philosophy) 1643
*Disquisitio metaphysica adversus Cartesium (philosophy) 1644
Institutio astronomica (philosophy) 1647
De vita et moribus Epicuri libri octo [Life of Epicurus] (philosophy and biography) 1647
Animadversiones in Decimum Librum Diogenis Laertii (philosophy) 1649
Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma (philosophy) 1649; printed as an appendix to Animadversiones in Decimum Librum Diogenis Laertii
Tychonis Brahei, equitis Dani, astronomorum coryphaei … Nicolai Copernici, Georgii Puerbachi et Joannis Regiomantani, astronomorum celebrum vita [Lives of Tycho Brahe, Nicolas Copernicus, et al.] (history and biography) 1654
†The Mirrour of True Nobility and Gentility, Being the Life of The Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix (philosophy) 1657
Syntagma Philosophicum (philosophy) 1658
Opera omnia (philosophy) 1658
§The Vanity of Judiciary Astrology or Divination by the Stars Lately Written in Latin, by that Great Scholar and Mathematician, the Illustrious Petrus Gassendus (philosophy) 1659
The Selected Works of Pierre Gassendi [translation by Craig B. Brush] (philosophy) 1972
Institutio Logica: A Critical Edition with Introduction and English Translation [edited by Howard Jones] (philosophy) 1981
*This work, published by Gassendi's (and Descartes') friend Samuel Sorbiere, contains Gassendi's Objections, Descartes' Responses, and Gassendi's Instantiae. The Instantiae, Gassendi's reply to Descartes' Responses, were circulated among Gassendi's friends in 1642, but not published until Sorbiere obtained his permission to print this edition.
†This work is a translation of Life of Peiresc.
§This work is a translation of part of the Syntagma Philosophicum.
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