For works on atomism in the Indian philosophical traditions, on Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius, al-Rāzī, Islamic and Renaissance atomism, see primarily the relevant articles in this encyclopedia. This bibliography focuses on sources for alternative varieties of atomism, as well as sources that connect and compare different periods and traditions.

General

• Dijksterhuis, E.J., 1961. The Mechanization of the World Picture, trans. C. Dikshoorn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar) (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Furley, David J., 1987. The Greek Cosmologists vol 1: The Formation of the Atomic Theory and its Earliest Critics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Konstan, David, 1982. ‘Atomism and its Heritage: Minimal Parts,’ Ancient Philosophy, 2: 60–75. (Scholar)
• Lasswitz, Kurd, 1890. Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton, Hamburg: Verlag von Leopold Voss. (Scholar)
• Lüthy, Christoph, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman, 2001. ‘Introduction: Corpuscles, Atoms, Particles and Minima,’ in Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Leiden: Brill, 1–38. (Scholar)
• Pines, Shlomo, 1997. Studies in Islamic Atomism, trans. Tzvi Langermann. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, Magnes Press. (Scholar)
• Pyle, Andrew, 1997. Atomism and Its Critics: From Democritus to Newton, Bristol: Thoemmes Press. (Scholar)
• Rashed, Marwan, 2005. ‘Natural philosophy,’ in Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 287–307. (Scholar)
• Sorabji, Richard, 1982. ‘Atoms and Time Atoms,’ in N. Kretzmann (ed.), Infinity and Continuity in Ancient and Medieval Thought, Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 37–86. (Scholar)
• –––, 1983. Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, London and Ithaca, NY: Duckworth and Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Zilioli, Ugo (ed.), 2021. Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. (Scholar)

Atomism in Classical Indian Philosophy

• Bhaduri, Sadananda, 1947. Studies in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Metaphysics, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Scholar)
• Carpenter, Amber, 2014. Indian Buddhist Philosophy, Durham: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Carpenter, Amber with Ngaserin, Sherice, 2021. ‘Atoms and Orientation: Vasubandhu’s solution to the problem of contact,’ in Ugo Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 159–81. (Scholar)
• Chatterjee, Amita, 2017. ‘Naturalism in Classical Indian Philosophy’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/naturalism-india/>. (Scholar)
• Dasgupta, Surendranath, 1987. Natural Science of the Ancient Hindus, edited by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research (Scholar)
• Ganeri, Jonardon, 2001. Philosophy in Classical India, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019. ‘Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/early-modern-india/>. (Scholar)
• Gangopadhyaya, M., 1980. Indian Atomism: History and Sources, Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi. (Scholar)
• Goodman, Charles, 2004. ‘The Treasury of Metaphysics and the Physical World,’ Philosophical Quarterly, 54(216): 389–401. (Scholar)
• Keith, Arthur Berriedale, 1921. Indian Logic and Atomism: An Exposition of the Nyāya and Vaiceṣika Nyâya Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kumar, Shashi Prabha, 2019. Categories, Creation and Cognition in Vaiśeṣika Philosophy, Springer. (Scholar)
• Matilal, Bimal Krishna, 1977. Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika: A History of Indian Literature, 6.2. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. (Scholar)
• –––, 1986. Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Mehta, Mohan Lal, 1954. Outlines of Jaina Philosophy: The Essentials of Jaina Ontology, Epistemology and Ethics, Bangalore: The Jain Mission Society. (Scholar)
• Mishra, A.K., 2006. ‘Atomism of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika and Jainism’, Indian Journal of the History of Science, 41: 247–61. (Scholar)
• Needham, Joseph, 1969. The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. (Scholar)
• Nyayavijayaji, Muni Shri, 1998. Jaina Philosophy and Religion, translated by Nagin J. Shah. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. (Scholar)
• Phillips, Stephen H., 1995. Classical Indian Metaphysics: Refutations of Realism and the Emergence of ‘New Logic’, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Ronkin, Noa, 2005. Early Buddhist Metaphysics, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Sarkar, Sahotra, 2021. ‘Aggregates versus Wholes: An unresolved debate between the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist schools in ancient Indian atomism,’ in Ugo Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 182–97. (Scholar)
• Thakar, Anantalal, 2003. Origin and Development of the Vaiśeṣika System (PHISPC, Volume II, Part 4), New Delhi: Center for Studies in Civilizations. (Scholar)

Leucippus and Democritus

• Guthrie, W.K.C., 1967. A History of Greek Philosophy vol. 1: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Heidel, W.A., 1940. ‘The Pythagoreans and Greek Mathematics,’ American Journal of Philology, 61: 1–33. (Scholar)
• Makin, Stephen, 1993. Indifference Arguments, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mihai, Adrian, 2021. ‘Atomism and the Cambridge Platonists,’ in Ugo Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 206–71. (Scholar)
• More, Henry, 1653. Conjectura Cabbalistica, London: J. Flesher. (Scholar)
• Owen, G.E.L., 1957–8. ‘Zeno and the mathematicians,’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 58: 199–222. (Scholar)
• Sedley, David, 2008. ‘Atomism’s Eleatic Roots,’ in Patricia Curd and Daniel W. Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 305–332. (Scholar)
• Tannéry, Paul, 1887. L’Histoire de la science héllène, Paris: Georg Olms.

Plato, Platonists and Pythagoreans

• Dillon, John, 2003. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 BC), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Konstan, David, 1988. ‘Points, Lines, and Infinity: Aristotle’s Physics Zeta and Hellenistic Philosophy,’ in John J. Cleary (ed.), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 3: 1–32. (Scholar)
• Mueller, Ian, 2000. ‘Plato’s Geometrical Chemistry and Its Exegesis in Antiquity,’, in P. Suppes, J. Moravcsik and H. Mendell (eds.), Ancient and Medieval Traditions in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Memory of Wilbur Knorr, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 159–76. (Scholar)
• Opsomer, J., 2012. ‘In Defence of Geometric Atomism: Explaining Elemental Properties,’ in J. Wilberding and C. Horn (ed), Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 147–73. (Scholar)
• Pines, Shlomo, 1986. ‘A New Fragment of Xenocrates and its Implications,’ in Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Medieval Science, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 3–95. (Scholar)
• Sambursky, S., 1962. The Physical World of Late Antiquity, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Sattler, Barbara, 2021. ‘Platonic Reception – Atomism and the Atomists in Plato’s Timaeus,’ in Chelsea C. Harry and Justin Habash (eds.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, Leiden: Brill, 429–52 . (Scholar)
• Sedley, David, 2004. ‘On Generation and Corruption 1.2,’ in Frans de Haas and Jaap Mansfeld (eds.), Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book 1: Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 65–89. (Scholar)
• Siorvanes, Lucas, 1996. Proclus: Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Science, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)

Minima Naturalia in Aristotelian Thought

• Berryman, Sylvia, 2002. ‘The Sweetness of Honey: Philoponus against the Doctors on Supervenient Qualities,’ in Cees Leijenhorst, Christoph Lüthy and Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen (eds.), The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, Leiden: Brill, 65–79. (Scholar)
• Dijksterhuis, E.J., 1961. The Mechanization of the World Picture, trans. C. Dikshoorn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Duhem, Pierre, 1985. Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds, ed. and trans. Roger Ariew. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Glasner, Ruth, 2001. ‘Ibn Rushd’s Theory of Minima Naturalia,’ Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 11: 9–26 (Scholar)
• McGinnis, Jon, 2015. ‘A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima Naturalia,‘ Journal of the History of Philosophy, 53(1): 1–24. (Scholar)
• Murdoch, John E., 2001. ‘The Medieval and Renaissance Tradition of Minima Naturalia,’ in Christoph Lüthy, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Leiden: Brill, 91–132. (Scholar)
• Rashed, Marwan, 2005. ‘Natural philosophy,’ in Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 287–307. (Scholar)

Diodorus Cronus

• Denyer, Nicholas, 1981. ‘The Atomism of Diodorus Cronus,’ Prudentia, 13: 33–45. (Scholar)
• Sedley, David, 1977. ‘Diodorus Cronus and Hellenistic Philosophy,’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (New Series), 23: 74–120. (Scholar)

Epicurean Atomism

• Clay, Diskin, 1998. Paradosis and Survival: Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Scholar)
• Fish, Jeffrey and Kirk R. Sanders, 2011. Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Frischer, B., 1982. The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Gigante, Marcello, 1995. Philodemus in Italy: The Books from Herculaneum, translated by Dirk Obbink, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Scholar)
• Konstan, David, 1979. ‘Problems in Epicurean Physics,’ Isis, 70(3): 394–418 (Scholar)
• Netz, Reviel, 2015. ‘Were There Epicurean Mathematicians?’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, XLIX: 283–320. (Scholar)
• O’Keefe, Tim, 2005. Epicurus on Freedom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Sedley, David, 1988. ‘Epicurean Anti-Reductionism,’ in Jonathan Barnes and Mario Mignucci (eds.), Matter and Metaphysics, Naples: Bibliopolis, 297–327 . (Scholar)
• –––, 1998. Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Smith, Martin Ferguson, 1993. Diogenes of Oinoanda: The Epicurean Inscription, Edited with Introduction, Translation and Notes, Naples: Bibliopolis. (Scholar)
• Warren, James, 2002. Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Warren, James (ed.), 2009. Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)

Atomism and Particle Theories in Ancient Greek Sciences

• Berryman, Sylvia, 2002. ‘Galen and the Mechanical Philosophy,’ Apeiron: a journal for ancient philosophy and science, 235–53. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. ‘The Evidence for Strato of Lampsacus in Hero of Alexandria,’ in Marie-Laurence Desclos and W.W. Fortenbaugh (eds.), Strato of Lampsacus, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. (Scholar)
• Copenhaver, Brian, 1998. ‘The Occultist Tradition and Its Critics,’ in Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Volume 1), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 454–512. (Scholar)
• Damiani, Vincenzo, 2021. ‘The Reception of Atomism in Ancient Medical Literature: From Hippocrates to Galen,’ in Ugo Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 39–60. (Scholar)
• Drachmann, A. G., 1948. Ktesibios, Philon and Heron: A Study in Ancient Pneumatics, Copenhagen: Munksgaard. (Scholar)
• Gottschalk, Hans, 1980. Heracleides of Pontus, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Langermann, Tzvi, 2009. ‘Islamic Atomism and the Galenic Tradition,’ History of Science, 47: 1–20. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Leith, David, 2014. ‘Galen’s Refutation of Atomism,’ in Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger and James Wilberding (eds.), Philosophical Themes in Galen (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: Supplementary Volume 114), London: Institute of Classical Studies, 213–234 . (Scholar)
• Sedley, David, 1987. ‘Philoponus’ Conception of Space,’ 140–153 in Richard Sorabji (ed.), Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science, London: Gerald Duckworth. (Scholar)
• Vallance, J.T., 1990. The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)

Atomism in the Islamic World

• Adamson, Peter, 2014. ‘Galen on Void,’ in Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger and James Wilberding (eds.), Philosophical Themes in Galen (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplementary Volume 114), London: Institute of Classical Studies, 197–212. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. Philosophy in the Islamic World, A History of Philosophy Without any Gaps (Volume 3), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Baffioni, Carmela, 1982. Atomismo e Antiatomismo nel Pensiero Islamico, Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. ‘Presocratics in the Arab World’, in Lagerlund H. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer, 1073–6. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_416 (Scholar)
• Ben-Shammai, Hagai, 1985. ‘Studies in Karaite Atomism,’ Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 6: 243–93. (Scholar)
• Dhanani, Alnoor, 1994. The Physical Theory of Kalam, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013. ‘Atoms and Atomism,’ The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––. 2015. ‘The Impact of Ibn Sīnā’s Critique of Atomism on Subsequent Kalām Discussions of Atomism,’ Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 25: 79–104. (Scholar)
• Dhanani A. 2016. ‘Atomism in Islamic Thought,’ in H. Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_8463 (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. ‘Al-Mawaqif fi ‘ilm al-kalam by ‘Adud al-din al-Iji (d. 1355), and its commentaries’, in Khaled al-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), An Oxford Companion to Islamic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Hill, Donald R., 1974. The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
• –––, 1979. The Book of Ingenious Devices by the Banū (sons of) Mūsà bin Shākir, Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
• Langermann, Tzvi, 2009. ‘Islamic Atomism and the Galenic Tradition,’ History of Science, 47: 1–20. (Scholar)
• Lugal, Necati and Aydin Sayili, 1951. ‘Fārābi’s Article on Vacuum,’ Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayinlarindan, 15(1): 21–36.
• Koetschet, Pauline, 2019. Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, Doutes sur Galien, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• McGinnis, Jon, 2003. ‘The Topology of Time: An Analysis of Medieval Islamic Accounts of Discrete and Continuous Time,’ The Modern Schoolman, 81: 5–25. (Scholar)
• Pines, Shlomo, 1979. ‘Etudes sur Awhad al-Zaman Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi’, in The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines Volume 1: Studies in Studies in Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdadi: Physics and Metaphysics, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1–95. (Scholar)
• –––, 1986. ‘What was original in Arabic Science?’ in Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Medieval Science, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 329–53. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997. Studies in Islamic Atomism, Tzvi Langermann (trans.), Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press. (Scholar)
• Rashed, Marwan, 2005. ‘Natural philosophy,’ in Peter Adamson and Richard C. Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 287–307. (Scholar)
• Sorabji, Richard R.K., 1983. Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, London and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• van Ess, Josef, 2018. Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of The Hijra: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam (Volume 4), Gwendolin Goldbloom (trans.), Leiden: Brill, 514–34. (Scholar)
• Wolfson, Harry Austryn, 1976. The Philosophy of the Kalam, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Zamboni, Francesco Omar, 2021. ‘Atomism and Islamic Thought,’ in Ugo Zilioli (ed.), Atomism in Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 198–215. (Scholar)

Ancient Greek Atomism in Later European Philosophy

• Boas, Marie, 1949. ‘Hero’s Pneumatica: A Study of Its Transmission and Influence,’ Isis, 40(1): 38–48. (Scholar)
• Dijksterhuis, E.J., 1961. The Mechanization of the World Picture, trans. C. Dikshoorn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Duhem, Pierre, 1985. Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds, ed. and trans. Roger Ariew, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Freudenthal, Gad, 2003. ‘Review of Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories,’ Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41(2): 273–4. (Scholar)
• Grant, Edward, 1996. ‘Review of Bernhard Pabst, Atomtheorien des Lateinischen Mittelalters’ Isis, 87(2): 346–7. (Scholar)
• Grellard, Christophe and Aurélien Robert (eds.), 2009. Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Grellard, Christophe, 2009. ‘Nicolas of Autrecourt’s Atomistic Physics,’ in Grellard and Robert (eds.), Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Leiden: Brill, 107–126. (Scholar)
• Kargon, Robert H., 1966. Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Lüthy, Christoph, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman (eds.), 2001. Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Milton, J.R., 2002. ‘The Limitations of Ancient Atomism,’ in C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll, Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 178–95. (Scholar)
• Murdoch, John E., 1974. ‘Naissance et Développement de l’Atomisme au Bas Moyen Âge Latin,’ in Cahiers d’Études Médiévales II. La science de la nature: théories et pratiques, Montreal: Bellarmin, 11–32. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984. ‘Atomism and Motion in the Fourteenth Century,’ in Everett Mendelsohn (ed), Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 45–66. (Scholar)
• Newman, William R., 2006. Atomism and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009. ‘The Significance of “Chymical Atomism”,’ Early Science and Medicine, 14: 248–64. (Scholar)
• Pabst, Bernhard, 1991. ‘Atomism II: Medieval Theories,’ in Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Volume 1: A-K), Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 63–5. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994. Atomtheorien des Lateinischen Mittelalters, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. (Scholar)
• Palmerino, Carla Rita, 2001. ‘Galileo’s and Gassendi’s Solutions to the Rota Aristotelis Paradox: A Bridge Between Matter and Motion Theories,’ in Lüthy, Murdoch and Newman (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Leiden: Brill, 381–422. (Scholar)
• Robert, Aurélien, 2009. ‘William of Crathorn’s Mereotopological Atomism,’ in Grellard and Robert (eds.), Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Leiden: Brill, 127–62. (Scholar)
• Wilson, Catherine, 2008. Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)

Early Modern Indian Atomism

• Ganeri, Jonardon, 2011. The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450–1700, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Phillips, Stephen H., 1995. Classical Indian Metaphysics: Refutations of Realism and the Emergence of ‘New Logic’, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)