Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
Seventeenth-century French priest and philosopher who managed to be both devoutly Catholic and a free-thinking intellectual—no small feat. First to publish observations of Mercury's transit in 1631, earning a lunar crater named in his honor.
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Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.
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