Atoms
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
atoms · atomic bodies · eidola · first elements · images · indivisible and solid bodies · indivisible particles · matter · primal bodies · primal germs
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The indivisible particles that, according to Epicurean/Democritean physics, move through the void and combine to form all things.
the atoms, the void, the images which they call eidola, by whose impact we not only see but also think;
and second, that same turbulent collision of atoms (in which Democritus too is stuck) will not be able to produce this ordered beauty of the world.
For he holds that those same indivisible and solid bodies are carried downward by their own weight in a straight line, and that this is the natural motion of all bodies.
On the Nature of the Gods
The indivisible particles posited by Epicurean physics as the building blocks of all things, including potentially the gods.
First of all, these atoms do not exist.
Let them, by all means, be made of atoms;
I will grant, then, that all things consist of indivisible particles;
De Rerum Natura
The fundamental, indivisible, solid, and eternal particles that constitute all things, argued to be necessary on the grounds that nothing can come from nothing and nothing can perish utterly.
Eternal;
those elements
Men from the sea