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1Gassendi’s Training at the Collège Royal in Aix-en-Provence and the Carmélite Philosophical Tradition

2This paper relies on the unpublished lectures taught at the Collège Royal in Aix-en-Provence by Father Fezaye, Gassendi’s teacher in Philosophy. Following the philosophical tradition of his Order, the « Great Carmelites », Fezaye referred to John Baconthorpe, the so called « princeps averroistarum », whose main features in metaphysics and physics explain some of Gassendi’s original ideas. By a close comparison between Gassendi’s later writings and Carmelite teaching in Philosophy, we suggest more extensive research upon this specifie tradition in XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.

3Jean-Robert Armogathe. Professor of History of Religions & Scientific Ideas in Modern Europe at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Religions Sciences), Sorbonne, 45 rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris.
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4Gassendi’s mystical mathematics

5Gassendi read, on his reception at the College Royal (23/11/1645), an Oratio inauguralis on the theme: ὅθέος ἀεὶ γεωµετρεῖ. (God is always geometrizing), a lecture which, untypically enough in a Christian skeptic, belongs to the genre of mystical mathematics. This tradition can be traced from Nicolaus Cusanus to Pascal and Leibniz: it builds on the philosophical – and even theological – problems, in order to test reason’s ability to solve them; thus, the operation of « transsumption », such as the passage from the polygon to the circumference, is supposed to establish a commensurability or common ratio between the most heterogenous objects – man and Christ for instance, or the world and God –, a method which leads to viewing nature as a vast morphogenetic process following the rules of tranformational geometry.
Gassendi’s extremely brilliant performance suggests that the mysteries of nature and of religion cannot be transcribed into geometrical problems, and that they rather point to the fact that

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