Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased THE WORLD MACHINE THE FIRST PHASE THE COSMIC MECHANISM THE WORLD MACHINE THE FIRST PHASE THE COSMIC MECHANISM BY CARL SNYDER "Vicisti, Galileo!" SECOND IMPRESSION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 1907 All rights reserved ΤΟ THE ALL BUT FORGOTTEN MEMORY OF DEMOCRITUS OF ABDERA (ca. 460-360 B.C.) Justly esteemed by Bacon as the weightiest of the ancients; Geometer and traveller, physiologist and polyhistor, path-hewer and sage. He wrote illuminatively upon almost every branch of natural knowledge, in an Attic praised by Cicero as rivalling Plato's ; Founder of the Atomic Theory, and first of whom we know, historically to conceive this world and all it contains as a mechanism. To his ideas, 2000 years of invention, discovery, and research have added much but changed little. 173416 |