" . . so that an angel can proportionate this power to a greater or smaller part of corporeal substance; for if there was no body at all, this power of God or of an angel would not correspond to any extension whatsoever" *
I place this here as a memento: the founder of modern science was still capable of arguing how many angels might dance on the head of a pin.
*Descartes' second letter to Henry More, cited in Koyré, Closed World, 191.
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