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This book is about the varying influence of theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone.Osler, Margaret J. is the author of 'Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World' with ISBN 9780521461047 and ISBN 0521461049.
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