Then a various and great multitude of atoms enjoying the same nature, as it is before asserted, being hurried aloft, did form the stars.

The multitude of these exhaled bodies, having struck and broke the air in shivers, forced a passage through it; this being turned into wind invested the stars, as it moved, and whirled them about, by which means to this present time that circulary motion which these stars have in the heavens is maintained.
Much after the same manner the earth was made; for by those little particles whose gravity made them to reside in the lower places the earth was formed.

The heaven, fire, and air were constituted of those particles which were carried aloft.

But a great deal of matter remaining in the earth, this being condensed by the driving of the winds and the air from the stars, every little part and form of it was compressed, which created the element of water; but this being fluidly disposed did run into those places which were hollow, and these places were those that were capable to receive and protect it; or the water, subsisting by itself, did make the lower places hollow.

After this manner the principal parts of the world were constituted..