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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) and Empedocles (harmony and discord), by employing consistent mechanistic postulates that required no supernatural... More...
Greece, 1961, Democritus and atomic symbol
Greece, 1983, Democritus
Sao Tome e Principe, 1983, Democritus