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The Search for the Historical Gassendi
Margaret J. Osler
Margaret J. Osler
Margaret J. Osler is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. She has published Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World (1994) and many articles on Gassendi's natural philosophy. Her most recent book is Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe (2010). [Editors' note: Maggie Osler passed away on September 14, 2010. We remember her with fondness and we will miss her.]
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Margaret J. Osler
Margaret J. Osler is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. She has published Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World (1994) and many articles on Gassendi's natural philosophy. Her most recent book is Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe (2010). [Editors' note: Maggie Osler passed away on September 14, 2010. We remember her with fondness and we will miss her.]
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Perspectives on Science (2011) 19 (2): 212–229.
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Margaret J. Osler; The Search for the Historical Gassendi. Perspectives on Science 2011; 19 (2): 212–229. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00037
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