The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653, an electronic edition. Edited with an introduction by Leigh Tillman Partington
Margaret Cavendish [ Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 ]
date: 1653
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collection: Early Modern through the 18th Century
Table of Contents
- critical introduction
- Texts
- Poem: To Natural Philosophers.
- Poem: A World made by Atomes.
- Poem: The foure principall Figur'd Atomes make the foure Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharpe.
- Poem: Of Aiery Atomes.
- Poem: Of Aire.
- Poem: Of Earth.
- Poem: The weight of Atomes.
- Poem: The bignesse of Atomes:
- Poem: The joyning of severall Figur'd Atomesmake other Figures.
- Poem: What Atomes make Change.
- Poem: All things last, or dissolve, according to the Composure of Atomes.
- Poem: Of Loose Atomes.
- Poem: Change is made by several-figur'd Atomes, and Motion.
- Poem: Of Sharpe Atomes.
- Poem: What Atomes make Flame.
- Poem: Of Fire and Flame.
- Poem: Of Fire in the Flint.
- Poem: Of the Sympathy of Atomes.
- Poem: Of the Sympathy of their Figures.
- Poem: What Atomes make Vegetables, Minerals, and Animals.
- Poem: What Atomes make Heate and Colde.
- Poem: What Atomes make Fire to burne, and whatFlame.
- Poem: What Atomes make the Sun, and the Sea, go round.
- Poem: What Atomes make Life.
- Poem: What Atomes make Death.
- Poem: What Atomes cause Sicknesse.
- Poem: What Atomes make a Dropsie.
- Poem: What Atomes make a Consumption.
- Poem: What Atomes make the wind Collick.
- Poem: What Atomes make a Palsey, or Apoplexy.
- Poem: In all other Diseases they are mixed, taking parts, and factions.
- Poem: All things are govern'd by Atomes.
- Poem: A warr with Atomes.
- Poem: Atomes and Motion fall out.
- Poem: The agreement of some kinde of Motion, with some kinde of Atomes.
- Poem: Motion directs, while Atomes dance.
- Poem: The difference of Atomes and Motion, in youth and age.
- Poem: Motion makes Atomes a Bawd for Figure.
- Poem: Motion and Figure
- Poem: Of the Subtlety of Motion.
- Poem: Motion is the Life of all things.
- Poem: Of the Center.
- Poem: All sharpe Atomes do run to the Center, and those that settle not, by reason of the straitnesse of the Place, flye out to the Circumference. Sharpe Atomes to the Center, make a Sun.
- Poem: In the Center Atomes never Separate.
- Poem: If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centers.
- Poem: The Infinites of Matter
- Poem: A World made by foure Atomes.
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