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 ...

CHAP. I. The Existence of Atoms, Evicted. p. 84.

SECT. I.

ARTIC:

1 THe right of the Authors Transition from the Incorporeal to the Corporeal part of Nature: and a series of his subsequent speculations:

ibid.

2 Bodies generally distinshed into Principles and Productions, with their Scholastick Denomi∣minations and proprieties.

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3 The right of Atoms to the Attributes of the First Matter.

ibid.

4 Their sundry Appellations allusive to their three eminent proprieties.

ibid.

5 Two vulgarly passant Derivations of the word, Atom, exploded.

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6 Who their Inventor: and who their Nomen∣clator.

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7 Their Existence demonstrated.

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8 That Nature, in her dissolution of Concretions, doth descend to the insensible particles.

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9 That she can run on to Infinity.

ibid.

10 But must consist in Atoms, the Term of Ex∣solubility.

11 A second Argument of their Existence, drawn from that of their Antitheton Inanity.

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12 A third, hinted from the impossibility of the Production of Hard Bodies, from any other Principle.

ibid.

13 A Fourth, from the Constancy of Nature in the specification and Determinate Periods of her Generations.

ibid.