Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...
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Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...
Author
Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Thomas Heath ...,
1654.
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Science -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Atomism.
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"Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32712.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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SECT. I.
ARTIC.
1 THe Hoti of Time more easily conceivable by the Simple Notion of the Vulgar, then by the complex Definitions of Philoso∣phers.
ibid.
2 The General praesumption that Time is Corpo∣real, or an Accident dependent on Corporeal Subjects; the chief Cause of that Difficulty.
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3 The variety of opinions, concerning it; ano∣ther Cause of the Difficulty: and Epicurus Description of its Essence, recited and explain∣ed.
ibid.
4 Time defined to be Coelestial Motion, by Zeno, Chrysippus, &c. and thereupon affirmed, by Philo, to be onely Coaevous to the World.
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5 Aristotles so much magnifyed Definition of Time to be the Measure of Motion Coelestial, &c. perpended and found too light.
ibid.
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