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1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter V, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions., London: E. C for Henry Eversden, →OCLC, page 53:
The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.