Complete Works, Volume Four
Opera Omnia, Tomus Quartus
Latin
1658
544 pages
First Modern Translation
Only antiquated translations exist. This is the first modern English translation.
The search results confirm that Pierre Gassendi's 'Institutio Astronomica' (which is the primary work contained in the 'Opera Omnia, Tomus Quartus' provided in the sample) was published in Latin in the 17th and 18th centuries (e.g., 1653, 1675, 1683, 1702). No modern scholarly English translation of the 'Opera Omnia' or the 'Institutio Astronomica' was found in the catalogs. The existing editions found in the Internet Archive are all Latin-language editions. Therefore, this is a first modern translation case.
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astronomymathematicsphilosophytheology
Pierre Gassendi transforms the 17th-century sky into a rigorous laboratory of observation and geometric precision. Readers will witness the transition from ancient celestial myths to the dawn of modern empirical science.
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