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...
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