Bernier was a minor figure who influenced the history of philosophy out of all proportion to his own strictly
philosophical abilities. He was effective as a propagandist in the debates over the analysis of matter, and
especially as a popularizer of the views of Pierre Gassendi, whose nominalism he sought to apply with greater
consistency.
Bernier was and remains the best-known disciple of Gassendi, whose eyes he is supposed to have closed at his
death. In the seventeenth and for at least the next two centuries, Bernier was rather less known as a philosopher
than as a traveller, especially for [...]
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