The word body, in the most general acceptation, signifieth that which
filleth or occupieth some certain room or imagined place; and dependeth
not on the imagination, but is a real part of that we call the universe.
For the universe, being the aggregate of all
bodies, there is no real part thereof that is not also body; nor anything
properly a body that is not also part of that aggregate of all bodies,
the universe.
Leviathan: by Thomas Hobbes (1651), Chapter XXXIV: Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture |