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> Epicurus, upon whose atomism all of modern science is based.

It is difficult to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

Modern science makes no reference to Epicurean atomism, other than in the historical choice of the word "atom" to refer to something that Epicurus wasn't talking about.




Okay. Then I'd be interested to know about atomism after Lucretius and before the renaissance. Who was the first modern "inventor" of it?

My comment was meant to express alarm that anyone could say there was no lost library buried by Vesuvius.

Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri#Epicureani...




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