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Leighton Library has a 1649 edition of "Exercitationes paradoxicae, adversus aristoteleos" by Pierre Gassendi
Added at 06:38 on 24 October 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1649 edition of "Exercitationes paradoxicae, adversus aristoteleos" (Paradoxical Exercises Against the Aristotelians) by French philosopher, priest, astronomer & mathematician Pierre Gassendi who died #OnThisDay 24 October 1655. He published the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him
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