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  • 131Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …

    History of philosophy

  • 132John Mandeville — Full page portrait of Sir John Mandeville. Created 1459. Jehan de Mandeville , translated as Sir John Mandeville , is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, written in Anglo …

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