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Democritus, c.460–c.370 B.C., Greek philosopher of Abdera; pupil of Leucippus. His theory of the nature of the physical world was the most radical and scientific attempted up to his time. He avoided the abstractions of his predecessors, Anaxagoras (mind)... more
Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmokritos, "chosen of the people") (ca. 460 BCE – ca. 370 BCE) was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera in the north ...
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15 Aug 2004 ... Democritus, known in antiquity as the 'laughing philosopher' because of his emphasis on the value of 'cheerfulness,' was one of the two ...
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Article by JJ O'Connor and EF Robertson, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Emphasizes this philosopher's work in physics and geometry.
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4th century BCE philosopher of Abdera who expanded the atomic theory of Leucippus.
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This classical Greek thinker's fragments, arranged by subject. Adapted from the 1948 Freeman translation.
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Democritus; in a collection of the earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, ... To account for the world's changing physical phenomena, Democritus ...
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Democritus about the indivisibility of the smallest of things.
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Democritus, probably the greatest of the Greek physical philosophers, was a native of Abdera in Thrace, or as some say -- probably wrongly -- of Miletus. ...
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Democritus' ideas represent the first formal attempt to create a materialism. Everything - even the soul - is composed of atoms. Hence all motion or change ...
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Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; died in 370 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus, ...
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