Atomism
Atomism is the philosophical, and later scientific, belief in units of matter that are smaller than what we experience of matter. Matter is not solid stuff, but a particular arrangement of always moving atoms within empty space. Conceptualized by Democritus and Epicurus, this idea was later taken up by natural philosophers who were aided with microscopes.
The heroine in Cavendish’s Blazing World is not impressed with Hooke’s Micrographia. While she acknowledges its power to see into matter, she argues that such knowledge only leads to discord, not social development.
Graham Harman argues that atomism undermines the object.
The heroine in Cavendish’s Blazing World is not impressed with Hooke’s Micrographia. While she acknowledges its power to see into matter, she argues that such knowledge only leads to discord, not social development.
Graham Harman argues that atomism undermines the object.
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