 A prevailing tendency in modern scholarship to identify particle theories with ‘mechanistic’ thinking is not representative of ancient atomism: the identification of Greek atomism as a precursor to the New Science was due to the work of 17th century figures like Pierre Gassendi, Henry More and Robert Boyle. Galen elsewhere explicitly contrasts atomist thought with the schools who appeal to explanations from mechanics (Berryman 2002). Galen’s presentation of Greek natural philosophy was important in the later reception of ideas into Islamic philosophy (Langermann 2009) and the Renaissance (Copenhaver 1998).