| In this paper, I argue that there is a much greater degree of subtlety in the moral thought of Thomas Hobbes and a comparison of him and the ancient atomist, Epicurus. |
| Descartes's vision of science thus combined the Archimedean, the Pythagorean, and the atomist points of view. |
| The original atomist theory was a response to the Eleatic school of Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus of Samos. |
| Boyle argued that only by laying hold of atomist ideas could the occult and teleological influence of the alchemists be removed from the subject. |
| He was not an atomist in the mould of Democritus, but he did conceive of atom-like fundamental particles of the four Empedoclean elements. |
| The simple number schemes he favored for this purpose are more ancient than the atomist theory of Lucretius, and more obvious. |
