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  1. Sep 20, 2022 · The atomists of the time (Democritus being one of the leading atomists) believed there were two realities that made up the physical world: atoms and void. There were an infinite number of atoms, but different types of atoms had different sizes and shapes.

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  3. Aug 16, 2021 · Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. He proposed the existence of indivisible particles that he called atoms. However, his ideas about atoms were not based on experiments or observation but rather on reasoning about the nature of matter.

  4. Aug 15, 2004 · Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory. He elaborated a system originated by his teacher Leucippus into a materialist account of the natural world.

  5. May 30, 2024 · Democritus then reasoned that changes occur when the many atomos in an object were reconnected or recombined in different ways. Democritus even extended this theory, suggesting that there were different varieties of atomos with different shapes, sizes, and masses.

  6. The atomists of the time (Democritus being one of the leading atomists) believed there were two realities that made up the physical world: atoms and void. There was an infinite number of atoms, but different types of atoms had different sizes and shapes.

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