References for Pierre Gassendi

Version for printing
  1. B Rochot, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. B Brundell, Pierre Gassendi : from Aristotelianism to a new natural philosophy (Dordrecht, 1987).
  2. H Jones, Pierre Gassendi, 1592-1655: An Intellectual Biography (1981).
  3. L S Joy, Gassendi the atomist : advocate of history in an age of science (Cambridge, 1987).
  4. Pierre Gassendi, sa vie et son oeuvre, Centre International de Synthèse (Paris, 1955).
  5. B Rochot, Les travaux de Gassendi sur Epicure et sur l'atomisme, 1619-1658 (Paris, 1944).

Articles:

  1. A Beaulieu, L'énigmatique Gassendi: Prévôt et savant, La vie des sciences 9 (1992), 205-209.
  2. A G Debus, Pierre Gassendi and his Scientific Expedition of 1640, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 63 (1963), 133-134.
  3. L U Pancheri, Pierre Gassendi, a forgotten but important man in history of physics, American Journal of Physics 46 (5), 455-464.
  4. A J Turner, Pierre Gassendi : astronomer and natural philosopher, Interdisciplinary science reviews 19 (1994), 135-139.
JOC/EFR December 1996

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