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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SECT. I.
ARTIC.
1 WHy the Nature of Motion, which de∣served to have been the subject of the first speculation, was reserved to be the Argu∣ment of the Last, in this Physiology.
ibid.
2 An Epicurean Principle, of fundamental con∣cern to motion.
436
3 Aristotles Position, that the first Principle of motion, is the very Forme of the thing mo∣ved; absolutely incomprehensible: unless the Form of a thing be conceived to be a certain tenuious Contexture of most subtile and most active Atoms.
ibid.
4 A second Epicurean Fundamental, concerning motion: and the state of the Difference betwixt Epicurus, Aristotle, and Plato, touching the same.
47
5 Epicurus's Definition of motion, to be the Re∣move of a body from place to place; much more intelligible and proper, than Aristotles, that it is the Act of an Entity in power, as it is such.
438
6 Empericus his Objections against that Defi∣nition of Epicurus: and the full Solution of each.
439
7 That there is motion; contrary to the Sophisms of Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno, Diodorus and the Scepticks.
441
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