mixed-seed composition of all things
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different atoms compounded · mixed seed
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The doctrine that no compound thing is made of a single kind of atom; every object mixes multiple distinct atomic shapes, explaining its multiple properties (color, smell, taste, texture) and internal anatomical complexity.
Of elements.
nothing there is
hath whence the fires arise-