  The British success of Gassendism had three textual sources. In addition to the Opera Omnia and Bernier's Abrégé, Walter Charleton produced a selective and amended English translation of parts of the Animadversiones, intermingled with other sources and his own perspectives (1654). There was as well a group of atomist enthusiasts in the Newcastle Circle, and a small existing British Epicurean club, whose members included Kenelm Digby and Nathaniel Highmore. This backdrop of sympathetic sources, not entirely faithful to the original, allowed a substantial and diffuse influence of Gassendi's views in British thought. We see Gassendism shaping the work of lesser figures such as Francis Glisson (who embraced a vis motrix) and Thomas Willis (who crafted a materialist theory of neural transmission based on Gassendi's view (Wallace 2003)) but also such major thinkers as Boyle, Locke, Newton, Hume, and Reid. Those sources of influence themselves were sufficiently diffuse that it is difficult to make precise Gassendi's imprint on these later authors, except where they explicitly acknowledge their debts.