...Newton's position were in fact large ones. Was it so certain that Nature is lasting, or that the atoms do 'compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages'? Was there at the time — indeed, has there ever been — evidence enough to justify a conviction that...

...massy, hard, impenetrable . . . even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces . . . [so] that they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages. ..." What we have said for atoms goes for all the other denizens of the quantal microworld — molecules,...

...ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and...the same nature and texture in all ages: but should thev wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water...

...ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation. While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature & Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending...

...marter in solid, massy, hatd, impenerrable, moveable Patticles .... While the Patticles continue entite, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages."* If the patticles changed, if they broke in pieces or were worn down, then the subsrances that they...

...space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed diem While the particles continue entire, diey may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages'. Cf. his 'Mathematical Principles' (cd. Cajori, Berkeley, 1947) BL HI Prop. VI, Cor. IV: AR and MB Hall...

...ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and...particles and fragments of particles would not be ot the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning....

...compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ... While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and...Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed ... And therefore, that Nature may be lasting [ie. in order that the laws of nature continue to hold],...

...Particles being Solids; ...even so very hard. as never to wear or break in pieces. .While the particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and...Nature of Things depending on them would be changed. What is a remarkably positive feature in these passages is the preoccupation with "chemical identity."...

...them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ... While the Particles continue enlire. they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: Bui shoald they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, woald be changed...