...as his "Atomic Theory." CHAPTER IX. A SKETCH OF THE ATOMIC THEORY FROM THALES TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON. "For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,...mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms." — MlLTON. JOEVAL with the manifestation of the reasoning faculties — that far and pre-historic...

...ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for maistrie, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms: they around the flag Of each his faction, in their...

...earth from heaven and hell, Milton describes matter still scattered into its elemental particles : For Hot, Cold, Moist and Dry, four champions fierce...mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms. PL n 898 This reflects a simple form of atomic theory as expounded by Greek philosophers, and by Bacon...

...Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms . . . Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and...

...neglected the description of chaos that has most interested the critics: chaos as warring embryon atoms. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistry, and to Battle bring Thir embryon Atoms; they around the flag Of each his Faction, in their...

...Knowledge] O Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of Science. Paradix: Loit 1667, Book IX, 679 131 For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,...mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms; 132 0 Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of Science, Now I feel thy Power, Within me cleere,...

...Plot — is just what greets Milton's Satan on the other side of the gates of Hell in the realm of Chaos. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry four champions...mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several clans, Light-armed or heavy, sharp, smooth,...

...Landscape, Arnold, London. Washburn, AL (1979) Geocryology, Arnold, London. ICE AGES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery. . . lohn Milton (1608-74) 21.1 THE TEMPO OF CHANGE IN THE LATE CENOZOIC ICE AGE It is often implicitly...

...ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to batde bring Their embiyon atoms: they around the flag 900 Of each his faction, in their several clans,...

...classical antiquity, but the true spirit of the ancient view still breathes through his description : For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in thir...