 The connection between Taurellus and Gorlaeus seems to be particularly direct because Gorlaeus develops a long series of arguments in support of the claim that a human being is “one being by aggregation, not by essence” (Gorlaeus 1620: 222–234; on Gorlaeaus, see Lasswitz 1890: vol. 1, pp. 455–463; Gregory 1966: 46–51; Lüthy 2012). Moreover, to spell out the implications of such a view of composites Gorlaeus presents a fully developed theory of material atoms, according to which nature is constituted by minimal, quantitative, indivisible, and corporeal particles interspersed with small regions of vacuum (Gorlaeus 1620: 239–243). The close connection between the endorsement of the existence of material atoms and the denial of the existence of composite unities in Gorlaeus made it tempting for Taurellus’s contemporaries to conjecture that such a close connection could be found also in Taurellus (see Voetius 1643: 28). However, a close look into Taurellus’s account of elements (see above  section 2)  shows that the unities that produce beings “by aggregation” are not to be understood in analogy to material atoms. The supposed closeness between the views of Taurellus and Gorlaeus thus rests on a misinterpretation of the ontology of the Triumph of Philosophy.