HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Aristotle
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Democritus
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Hippocrates
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Socrates
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leucippus of Miletus (5th century bce) is thought to have originated the atomic philosophy. His famous disciple, Democritus of Abdera, named the building blocks of matter atomos, meaning literally “indivisible, ‘’ about 430 bce.
Detailed explanation-2: -Democritus was alive from 460 to 370 BC and is largely famous for imagining the first atomic theory and model; that is, the first theory that explained the nature of matter as being composed of particles or atoms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Democritus, theorized that atoms were specific to the material which they composed. In addition, Democritus believed that the atoms differed in size and shape, were in constant motion in a void, collided with each other; and during these collisions, could rebound or stick together.