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| | The Necklace of Democritus |
 | | Democritus wondered how he could take apart the atoms in his grain of salt and line them up in a row, a problem made particularly difficult if he is correct that they are very, very small because of the resulting huge number of them. |
 | | I shall present the necklace to the wife of Leucippus, so that when he sees it, he will understand how small the atoms are. |
 | | Unfortunately, Hephaestus did not deliver the necklace to him the next day, nor the next, not even many days following, engaged as he was to manufacture crews for gods and heroes and to look for his wife Aphrodite (Venus in Latin) who was rather libertine in spirit. |
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