Demokritos/Democritus
(c. 460 - c. 370 BCE)
Demokritos of Abdura (Ancient Thrace) was a Presocratic
Nature Philosopher who posed the Atomic Hypothesis: everything that exits is composed of invisibly small and indivisible (atomon)
particles that have always and will always exist.
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Read a more detailed account of Demokritos from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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