KnowraPierre GassendiLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Pierre Gassendi, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 9Compared with 2EpicurusRelated: His synthesis helped transmit Epicurean natural philosophy into early modern debates.Corpuscular theory of lightRelated: His revival of atomist ideas formed part of the intellectual background for corpuscular explanations.Marin MersenneRelated: Mersenne’s correspondence linked him to Gassendi’s debates about atomism, nature, and religion.Mechanical philosophyRelated: His corpuscular account offered a rival foundation for mechanical explanations.LucretiusRelated: Gassendi helped make Epicurean atomism discussable in early modern philosophy.Rudolphine TablesRelated: Gassendi tested the tables’ prediction by observing the 1631 transit of Venus.Julien Offray de La MettrieRelated: Gassendi's materialist tradition formed part of the intellectual background to La Mettrie's work.Transit of MercuryRelated: He observed the transit predicted for 1631.Cyrano de BergeracRelated: Gassendi's atomist ideas belong to the intellectual world that Cyrano's fiction reworks.