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Peer reviewedPancheri, Lillian U. – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Pierre Gassendi asserted, and for the first time successfully defended, the notion of an independently real space and time, thus providing seventeenth century physics with its needed philosophical foundation. This paper introduces the reader to Gassendi's work in physics and philosophy and describes some of his relationships to Galileo and his…
Descriptors: Astronomy, History, Mechanics (Physics), Natural Sciences
