⁷ A thorough and judicious analysis is provided by Olivier René Bloch, La Philosophie de Gassendi: nominalisme, matérialisme, métaphysique (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1971). Detailed analyses in relation to his Objections are given by Margaret J. Osler and Thomas M. Lennon, in Ariew and Grene, Descartes and His Contemporaries, 145–58, 159–81.