Cavendish Quotes

• "small Atomes of themselves a World may make."
• Of many worlds in this world (OMWITW): "although they are not subject to our sense, a world may be no bigger than a two-pence."
• OMWITW: "then ladies may well wear a world of worlds, as pendants in each ear"
• OMWITW: "what several worlds might in an ear-ring be"
• Rather than gazing into a microscope (like that of Locke), Cavendish looks inwards and contemplates worlds within her head
• "Those make all things i'th World ebb, and flow;

  According as the moving Atomes go.”
• Blazing World is a satire - the people in BW that are obsessed with microscopes and endlessly bickering satirizes the Royal Society and Robert Hooke
• In her poetry, she argues that the world is made BY atoms (not just made of them)
• the belief that matter is made up of fundamental, indivisible atoms - expressed by Lucretius (translated by LH, not published till 1996) - did not appear until 1682, long after Cavendish had written about atomism