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Excerpt from Matter and Motion
Thus in certain astronomical investiga tions the planets, and even the sun, may be regarded each as a material particle, because the difierence of the actions of difierent parts of these bodies does not come under our notice. But we cannot treat them as material particles when we investigate their rotation Even an atom, when we consider it as capable of rotation, must be regarded as consisting of many material particles.
The diagram of a material particle is of course a mathematical point, which has no configuration.
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