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Democritus of Abdera DhmokritoV apo Abdhra Circa 460 B.C.- 370 B.C. Democritus was born in the city of Abdera which is located in the region of Greece known as Ionia. He and his teacher Leucippus ( LeukippoV ) are believed to have developed the atomic theory which turned out to be strikingly accurate in a sense. In his theory, he postulated the existance of particles called " Atomos " or Atomos which is a Greek word meaning "indivisible". While the particles which are now named after this word, atoms, are certainly not indivisible, energy can be emitted or absorbed only in discrete units called quanta. The field of physics that describes this quantification of energy is appropriately named quantum mechanics. Since the energy never exists at a state in between these quanta, these energy quanta are like the atoms of Democritus in that they are indivisible. He wrote extensively on many subjects, but few of his works remain. He also made many contributions to mathematics which, had they not been lost, may have led to the development of calculus more than a millenium earlier than the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Some of these are on the subjects of numbers, geometry, mappings, irrational numbers, and perhaps most importantly, tangencies. It was the problem in mathematics known as the tangent line problem which led to the development of the most fundamental ideas in calculus. With calculus you can find the slope of a curved line at any point (being curved, it is different at every point) with a process called differentiation. This is done by finding the slope of the tangent line to the curve at that point (A tangent line is a line that meets that curve at exactly one point without crossing it.) using secant lines (crossing the curve at two points) to successively approximate the tangent line.

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Democritus of Abdera Born: about 460 BC in Abdera, Thrace, Greece Died: about 370 BC Click the picture above to see four larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Democritus of Abdera is best known for his atomic theory but he was also an excellent geometer. Very little is known of his life but we know that Leucippus was his teacher. Democritus certainly visited Athens when he was a young man, principally to visit Anaxagoras , but Democritus complained how little he was known there. He said, according to Diogenes Laertius writing in the second century AD [5]:- I came to Athens and no one knew me. Democritus was disappointed by his trip to Athens because Anaxagoras , then an old man, had refused to see him. As Brumbaugh points out in [3]:- How different he would find the trip today, where the main approach to the city from the northeast runs past the impressive "Democritus Nuclear Research Laboratory". Certainly Democritus made many journeys other than the one to Athens. Russell in [9] writes:- He travelled widely in southern and eastern lands in search of knowledge, he perhaps spent a considerable time in Egypt, and he certainly visited Persia. He then returned to Abdera, where he remained.

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Branch of Science Philosophers Nationality Greek Democritus of Abdera (ca. 470-ca. 380 BC) Greek philosopher who was a pupil of Leucippus and extended his mentor's atomic theory. He tried to account for the observable properties of matters in terms of the shapes of their constituent atoms, which he believed to be eternal, indestructible, and unchanging. He also pursued studies in physics, astronomy, zoology, botany, and medicine. In another example of amazing insight, he maintained that the Milky Way galaxy was a conglomeration of stars. Leucippus Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews) Bonn Greek and Roman Science and Technology

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Democritus was born in about 460 BC in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. He died at about 90 years of age, in about 370 BC. Democritus was an ambitious man with goals. He traveled mostly in southernand eastern lands, He traveled to Egypt, and Persia too. The reason for traveling this much was to discover diff A biography of Democritus of Abdera from the Hellenistic Age. It has atomic theory in it and Democritus' reasoning and acomplishments and basically his life. Note! The sentences in this essay are shuffled, making this essay unusable If you want to read the essay in it's original and proper state, click here. We use this page for our internal search engine, and it's not meant to be viewable. Philosophy Home Essays [LOGIN] ... 1995-2004, Loadstone

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Please note: These papers were prepared for the Greek Science course taught at Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane in the spring of 1995. The Perseus Project does not and has not edited these student papers. We assume no responsibility over the content of these papers: we present them as is as a part of the course, not as documents in the Perseus Digital Library . We do not have contact information for the authors. Please keep that in mind while reading these papers. The Atomists: Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera by Marc Wohnsigl April 14, 1994 I. Introduction II. Atomists vs. Eleatics III. Atomist Theory A. Basic Theory B. Senses C. Cosmogony IV. Conclusion Introduction Leucippus, born ca. 500 BCE, and his pupil, Democritus, born ca. 460 BCE, are credited with postulating the theory of Atoms and Void. Democritus expanded upon Leucippus' original theory and theorized on many of its detailed applications like perception. Leucippus is credited with writing only a few works, including The Great World System , in which he postulates his theory on atoms and void. Democritus was a much more prolific writer and is credited with writing fifty-two works, although some were quite short. These included his expansion on Leucippus' work in The

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Democritus of Abdera lived from about 460 BC to about 370 BC Democritus is best known for his atomic theory but he was also an excellent geometer. Find out more at http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ Mathematicians/Democritus.html

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Democritus of Abdera Born: 460 BC in Abdera, Thrace, Greece Died: about 370 BC Even though he was an outstanding geometer, he is best known for his atomic theory of matter, which consisted of an elaborate and systematic perspective of the physical world. With his theory, he could explain all changes that occur in the world as changes in motion of atoms or in the way the atoms were arranged. Also, he was one of the greatest philosophers of physical science among the ancient Greeks, believing that nature behaves like a machinea highly complex mechanism. As for his mathematical contributions, little is known other than the titles of some unsurviving texts: On numbers On geometry On tangencies On mappings , and On irrationals . It is also known that he did contribute to applied mathematical problemsdealing with the volume of solids. He was also interested in physics, ethics, and law. You can find more about Democritus here Page created and maintained by Jorge Cunha

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Democritus, Epicurus and Aristotle on atoms Translate: The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that even in 1900 the only new idea to Leucippus's theory was that each chemical element was identified with a separate atomic species. David Park, The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990 Greek 10 Drachma Coin with Democritus and the atom, before the EURO replaced the Drachma By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void Democritus Leucippus and Democritus. Democritus is said to have discovered the atoms, (a-tomos which is a Greek word for not divisible ), around 430 BC. He was a student of Leucippus. Democritus and Leucippus are mentioned together as having discovered the atoms but we know very little about Leucippus. Some say that Leucippus even did not exist and that this name was used by Democritus as a pseudonym. However this is very probably not true. The work The Great World System is considered to be a work of Leucippus in which the atoms and void are postulated. Although Democritus wrote many books almost nothing than a few Fragments survived and what we know are comments from Aristotle and others. How can Democritus and Leucippus discover atoms without being able to see atoms? Even at the times of Ludwig Boltzmann scientists did not believe that atoms exist. Boyle and Boltzmann and others believed this but there was no direct proof.

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Xvans Xperientialism Xvans Xperientialism Xvans Xperientialism Xvans Xperientialism Athenaeum Reading Room Democritus of Abdera The Presocratic Philosophers - by G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven. The University Press, Cambridge, England, 1962. Selections from Early Greek Philosophy by Milton C. Nahm Introduction Democritus was born at Abdera, Thrace, sometime around 458 BCE. He was described as well traveled, probably visiting Babylon, Egypt, and Ethiopia, and perhaps India. He appears to have spent all of his time on scientific and philosophical studies, teaching, and writing— some 60 works have been listed. Of his voluminous writings, only a few fragments of his ethical theory remain. But these fragments and the descriptions by other writers of his atomic theory put him among the foremost thinkers of his time. Aristoxenus wrote that Plato wanted to burn all the works of Democritus, but could not do so because the books were already in wide circulation. Failing this, he avoided any mention of Democritus in his own writings. Certainly, Socrates’ brand of argument might not have fared well against Democritus, who was described by Timon as "the guardian of discourse, a keen witted disputant". Democritus’s theory of the atomic nature of the physical world, developed from that of Leucippus, is known only through the works of critics of the theory such as Aristotle and Theophrastus. It resolved the question of how a world evidently in a state of flux could nevertheless have an underlying nature that was eternal and unchanging. By positing infinitely small things that remained the same but formed different combinations with each other, Leucippus initially, and Democritus in greater detail, managed to answer the question in a way that has been subject to increasingly successful elaboration ever since. One can trace the physical theory of atoms through Epicurus, Lucretius, and Galileo to modern times.

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