[7] Democritus was the originator of the atomic theory.
[8] A lively Spanish dance-measure.
[9] Wick (cf. the Standard Dictionary). Some modern French editions have "pelotons de verre," meaning "glass bulbs," but this is evidently a mistake, since the seventeenth-century editions have verres, which is their form, in all cases, for the modern vers. See also the first meaning of peloton in Littré.
[10] The incandescent electric light?
[CHAPTER XV.]
Of the Books in the Moon, and their Fashion; of Death, Burial,
and Burning; of the Manner of telling the Time; and of Noses.
Next Morning about Nine a Clock, my Spirit came in, and told me that he was come from Court, where
