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

Thomas M. Lennon

The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
436
ISBN
9780691633916

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

Thomas M. Lennon

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 the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes an

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