Note 35 — BOOK II [THE NATURE OF AIR. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING]

This difficult passage, according to Gercke’s text, runs: You will understand the meaning of this, and the necessity for my axiomatic position if I take up the argument a little farther back, and say that there is one kind of body possessing unity, another that is continuous, and another that is formed by junction. For junction is the contact of two bodies joined one to another, continuity is the uninterrupted joining of parts one to another, unity is continuity without junction (i.e. without a break).