For more background you may want to read the article on Mereology in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/
which also has an article on Medieval Mereology at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology-medieval/
The prominent American philosopher David Lewis used mereology in some of his papers. All David's papers are available online. I think you can find them there.