The Architecture of Matter
Thomas Holden
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The Architecture of Matter

Galileo to Kant

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Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These theories were plagued by a complex of interrelated problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is any material body infinitely divisible? Must we posit atoms or elemental minima from which bodies are ultimately composed? Are the parts of material bodies themselves material concreta? Or are they merelypotentialities or possible existents?Questions such as these - and the press of subtler questions hidden in their amibiguities - deeply unsettl...