The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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Democritus famously is the person who first described what we would now call the atom A tome which could not be divisible any further And saw the universe as infinite and didn't have a sense of an anthropomorphized creator That the universe existed and was infinite So he was an interesting very interesting model to take for Burton. He tells the story that Hippocrates actually passes judgment and says it's you people who are mad There is nothing mad about this man This man is laughing because that is the only response to the folly and madness of the world Yeah, and that's very much Burton's attitude too.
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