Philosophy by the Book

GASSENDI, Pierre (1592-1655)
Opera.
Lugduni: sumptibus L.Anisson & I.B. Devenet, 1653.

Gassendi, a contemporary of Descartes, was a leading philosopher and natural philosopher in France during the mid-seventeenth century. He developed an atomist natural philosophy radically opposed to that of Descartes and Boyle famously said of him that he had 'baptized Epicurus'. This is the first edition of his collected works and was widely read and cited in the early modern period.