{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"866","_score":null,"_source":{"id":866,"authors_free":[{"id":1270,"entry_id":866,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":278,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Nicol, A. T.","free_first_name":"A. T.","free_last_name":"Nicol","norm_person":{"id":278,"first_name":"Nicol","last_name":"A. T.","full_name":"Nicol, A. T.","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Indivisible Lines","main_title":{"title":"Indivisible Lines"},"abstract":"The name of Democritus can claim a place in any discussion of indivisibles. \r\nYet its introduction in this paper seems to depend on the lucus a non lucendo principle ; \r\nfor Democritus did not believe in the existence of indivisible lines. Nowhere is the \r\nbelief ascribed to him and in at least one place it is implicitly denied, the scholion on \r\nDe Caelo 268a x, which says he made his elements indivisible solids, as contrasted \r\nwith lines or surfaces. Two passages, one from Plutarch, the other from Simplicius, will show why he could not believe in indivisible lines. [p. 120]","btype":3,"date":"1936","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/j7CSmqxKwIBye6i","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":278,"full_name":"Nicol, A. T.","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":866,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"The Classical Quarterly","volume":"30","issue":"2","pages":"120-126"}},"sort":["Indivisible Lines"]}