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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of Nature, 2nd ed. (New
York, 1960). E. J. Dijksterhuis, The Mechanization of the
World Picture
(Oxford, 1960). R. W. Hepburn, “Philosophical
Ideas of Nature,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New
York, 1967), V, 454-58. F. A. Lange, Geschichte des Materi-
alismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart

(Iserlohn and Leipzig, 1866); trans. E. C. Thomas as History
of Materialism
(reprint, New York, 1950). K. Lasswitz,
Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton, 2 vols.,
2nd ed. (Leipzig, 1926). A. G. M. van Melsen, From Atomos
to Atom, the History of the Concept Atom,
2nd. ed. (New
York, 1960); idem, Physical Science and Ethics, a Reflection
on the Relationship between Nature and Morality
(Pitts-
burgh, 1967). C. J. de Vogel, Theoria, studies over de griekse
wijsbegeerte
(“Studies Concerning Greek Philosophy”)
(Assen, 1967). L. L. Whyte, Essay on Atomism: From Democ-
ritus to 1960
(London, 1961).

A. G. M. VAN MELSEN

[See also Atomism in the Seventeenth Century; Causation;
Epicureanism; Law, Natural; Matter; Nature; Platonism;
Rationality; Stoicism.]

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