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"No way to call a halt to this descent to the infinitesimal". According to Tarde, this may explain the attention to infinitesimal calculus and the success of the theory of evolution.

Newton's assumption that gravitation of the planet is the sum of all gravitation of all its individual portions-> terrestrial bodies gravitate towards each other -> even the smallest particles attract each other.

At the time this was revolutionary.

Monads have come along way since Leibniz. Actually I learnt today that Leibniz popularised the notion of the monad but that greek philosophers were working on this for decades and decades before.
Progress of chemistry leads us to affirm the atom and to deny the material continuity which the continuous character of the physical manifestations of the matter reveal.