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  • Just as for Democritus the term atomos does not mean exclusively indivisible, but is also a technical term for smallest particles, so also something similar seems to be the case with the word elachista.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. G. M. VAN MELSEN 1968

  • Although the Greek term atomos is most commonly associated with the philosophical system developed by Leucippus and Democritus, involving solid and impenetrable bodies, Plato's Timaeus presents a different kind of physical theory based on indivisibles.

    Ancient Atomism Berryman, Sylvia 2005

  • In medieval times the atomos was the shortest possible unit of time.

    Two Allegories 2009

  • Pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth manufactured in Asia has all kinds of implications I'd rather not discuss with rational adults, never mind bouncy human larvae, so I simply recite the pledge occasionally substituting the word "atomos" for "indivisible", and ask that the kids be respectful during this time given that our soldiers are dying overseas.

    Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008

  • Pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth manufactured in Asia has all kinds of implications I'd rather not discuss with rational adults, never mind bouncy human larvae, so I simply recite the pledge occasionally substituting the word "atomos" for "indivisible", and ask that the kids be respectful during this time given that our soldiers are dying overseas.

    Death by shopping and the Pledge doyle 2008

  • They are not so continual, as divers, felicius atomos denumerare possem, saith [1805] Bernard, quam motus cordis; nunc haec, nunc illa cogito, you may as well reckon up the motes in the sun as them.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Since the Greek adjective atomos means, literally,

    Ancient Atomism Berryman, Sylvia 2005

  • Hoc, fiquidem fbli obverteris, aut oblique afpe - xeris, vel denique raicrofcopio examinaveris, atomos teflulasque planes, minu - tiflfimas, vereque microfcopicas, quadrilateras, facheri ad inilar micantes. plum* bi fpatofi citrini efle dcteges.

    XAVERII WULFEN DE PLUMBO SPATOSO CARINTHIACO JOSEPHUS EYEREL 1791

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