Democritus was born in Abdera in Northern Greece and wrote on ethics, physics, mathematics, literature and language. After Leucippus and Democritus nothing significant was added to the atomic theory.

Just as tragedy or comedy can be written with the same letters of the alphabet, so, according to Democritus’ theory, can very different happenings in the world be produced by the same atoms.

Democritus' theory of vision combines the notions of images (εἲδωλα) streaming from objects and air imprints, which gives him the resources to account for the perception of the relative size and ...

From Democritus, who was the first to discuss atoms, down to the present day, we are given a panoramic but accurate description of the various types of atoms which have held the field of science ...

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn ...

From considerations of kinetic theory and of statistics, Einstein derived a simple formula for the movement of the suspended particle as a function of time, and challenged experimenters to put it ...

The ancient thinker Democritus is considered by many to be the father of modern science and is known for his theory that everything is made of atoms. He believed that knowledge was something to be ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

A. BLANKERT, HERACLITUS EN DEMOCRITUS: IN HET BIJZONDER IN DE NEDERLANDSE KUNST VAN DE 17 DE EEUW, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, Vol. 18 (1967), ...