and the oppressiveness of tradition. Most of them were young (Galileo is a notable exception) and had a youthful and aggressive voice. There is the place of Basson. Work Philosophiae naturalis adversus Aristotelem libri XII, in quibus abstrusa Veterum physiologia restauratur et Aristotelis errores solidis rationibus refelluntur (Natural philosophy against Aristotle, in twelve books, where the secret physiology of the Ancients is restored and Aristotle's errors are confuted with solid reasons) Philosophiae naturalis adversus Aristotelem libri XII…. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevir 1649—The quotes in the article are taken from this 1649 edition. Antonio Lamara; Roberto Palaia (eds.), Philosophiae naturalis adversus Aristotelem libri XII…. L.S. Olschki, 2009. Anastatic reprint of the edition published at Geneva in 1621 Notes and references Ariew, Roger. Descartes, Basson et la scolastique renaissante. In Descartes et la Renaissance, edited by E. Faye (Geneva: Slatkine, 1999), pp. 295–309. Ariew, Roger. "Basso, Sebastian". In Roger Ariew, Dennis Des Chene, Douglas M. Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz, Theo Verbeek, The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy. Scarecrow Press, 2010, Leclerc, Ivor. The necessity today of the philosophy of nature Lüthy, Christoph. "Thoughts and circumstances of Sébastien Basson. Analysis, micro-history, question". In Early Science and Medicine, 2 (1997), ; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century 17th-century French philosophers People from Moselle (department) 1570s births 17th-century French physicians Year of death missing French male non-fiction writers 17th-century French male writers