# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pierre Gassendi was born in France in 1592 and became a Catholic priest who split his time between a church position in the southeast and Paris, where he led a circle of free-thinking intellectuals. In 1631 he published the first recorded data on Mercury's transit across the sun, establishing himself as a serious observational astronomer. But his real fight was philosophical: he clashed with Descartes over whether certain knowledge was even possible, carving out a middle path between skepticism and dogmatism that helped shape what we now call the scientific outlook — moderated doubt, empirical evidence, no leaps of faith. His most ambitious project tried to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity, a move that required finesse and earned him a reputation as one of the early architects of modern thought. He died in 1655; a lunar crater still carries his name.