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David John Furley FBA (24 February 1922 – 26 January 2010) was a British scholar of ancient philosophy and a specialist in Greco-Roman cosmology and natural philosophy. He spent the first two decades of his academic career at University College London and the remainder at Princeton University, where he became Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature. Furley is best known for Two Studies in the Greek Atomists (1967) and The Greek Cosmologists (1987), and for a body of shorter writings widely admired for their analytical precision and economy. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.