An English translation of Bachelards sixth book in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.French philosopher Gaston Bachelard 18841962 is best known in the Englishspeaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn whose work he anticipates by three decades Bachelard examines the revolution taking place in scientific thought but with particular attention to the philosophical implications of scientific practice. Atomistic Intuitions published in 1933 considers past atomistic doctrines as a context for proposing a metaphysics for the scientific revolutions of the twentieth century.