General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . he Imperial libraryat Vienna. The MSS. which he left behindhim, and the treatises formerly published byhimself, w<:re printed together, accompanied bythe authors life, and published by Sorbiere, insix volumes folio, 1658. They consist of thephilosophy of Epicurus; the authors ownphilosophy ; astronomical works; the lives ofPeiresc, Epicurus, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe,Purbaeh, Regiomontanus, John Muller, 8rc.;a refuta
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . he Imperial libraryat Vienna. The MSS. which he left behindhim, and the treatises formerly published byhimself, w<:re printed together, accompanied bythe authors life, and published by Sorbiere, insix volumes folio, 1658. They consist of thephilosophy of Epicurus; the authors ownphilosophy ; astronomical works; the lives ofPeiresc, Epicurus, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe,Purbaeh, Regiomontanus, John Muller, 8rc.;a refutation of the meditations of Des Cartes ;and Epistles, and other treatises. Aforeri:Nouv. Diet. Hist. Martins Bhg. Phil,fields Hist. Phi!, vol. II. b. viii. ch. Hi. $ Math. Dift*—M. GASSION, John de, marshal of France,was bortl in 1609 at Pau, where his father waspresident of the parliament. At the age ofsixteen he entered into the gendarmes of theprince of Piedmont; and in 1627, and two after, he served under the duke de Rohan in thecivil wars on the carviriist side* to which lie wasalways attached. When the great Gustavusred Germany, Gassier! joined him, an I. GAS ( 325 ) G A S was made captain of his body-guard. He wasafterwards raised to the rank of a field-officerin the cavalry, in which post he performed es-sential services in many actions, and especiallyat the battle of Leipsic- Gustavus, who highlyesteemed his valour and fidelity, would havedistinguished him by some signal recompence,had he not soon after lost his life at that event, Gassion returned to Francewith his regiment, and entered under the mar-shal de la Force in Lorrain, where he renderedhimself the terror of the enemy. He perform-ed many remarkable exploits, and was pre-sent in several considerable actions-, The dukedAnguien (Conde) gave him aliberal share inthe honour of the victory at Rocroi. Hereceived a dangerous wound at the siege ofThiouville, in recompence for which he obtain-e
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