[I]n Democritean atomism … atoms are individual and indestructible packets of being with an unchanging shape and size. They, along with void, are the sole constituents of the universe.
— Alan Chalmers (2009)
The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, p.
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