Pierre Gassendi
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Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French libertine philosopher, scientist, astronomer/astrologer and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for publishing the first official observations of the Transit of Mercury in 1631. The Moon's Gassendi crater is named after him.
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