Kitap 10
1.42
Furthermore, the atoms, which have no void in them—out of which composite bodies arise and into which they are dissolved—vary indefinitely in their shapes; for so many varieties of things as we see could never have arisen out of a recurrence of a definite number of the same shapes. The like atoms of each shape are absolutely infinite; but the variety of shapes, though indefinitely large, is not absolutely infinite.
1.43
[For neither does the divisibility go on ad infinitum, he says belowProperly further within—a proof that the Scholiast read his Epicurus from a papyrus scroll which had to be unrolled. Hence further within or nearer the centre expresses the same thing as further on or below in a modern book.; but he adds, since the qualities change, unless one is prepared to keep enlarging their magnitudes also simply ad infinitum.]
