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Portrait of David Derodon (unknown author, undated, on display in the Salle Bonivard of the Bibliothèque de Genève). Bibliothèque de Genève, inventory number 0143.

Portrait of David Derodon (unknown author, undated, on display in the Salle Bonivard of the Bibliothèque de Genève). Bibliothèque de Genève, inventory number 0143.

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Historiography has shown that seventeenth-century Protestants had an elective affinity for atomic theories because of their conflict with the catholic dogma of transubstantiation. But is there something more in the ‘way of thinking’ that atomism entails that appealed to Protestant thinkers? And more precisely to Calvinist theologians? Using the wor...