Lucretius

• “The atoms and void are the only things that exist in reality”  --> Natural world is composed of the atom and the void; Atoms as the building blocks of all matter
• the body emits 'films' that travel between the void - bodies are always shedding these films; all compounds throw off ‘films’ of atoms from their surfaces. 
• Lucy Hutchinson Translation: "the same principles doe constitute heaven, earth, sun, sea, floods, creatures, plants and fruits."