Edmond Pourchot was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism in place of Aristotelianism.
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Edmond Pourchot was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism in place of Aristotelianism. The change within the University of Paris from Aristotelianism to Cartesianism during the 1690s was important in the history of the development of natural philosophy in France and continental Europe.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1651 to 1734 · aged 83
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