Democritus had a long life - some say he lived to be a hundred. His precise dates are not known. He himself wrote in The Small World Order, according to Diogenes Laertius (IX.41), that he was forty years younger than Anaxagoras. Probably he was born about 460 b.c ., and Leucippus was somewhat older. The atomic theory, then, must date from TWO NOTES ON ANCIENT ATOMISM ♦. in ancient Atomism, were the date of Democritus and the historicity of Leucippus. Both problems are closely connected : an early dating. older Atomist ; a late one, on the other hand, is thought to make the existence of such a « proto-atomist » historically quite unescapable 1. Demokritos en Hippokrates. The work contains a new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. It includes a Greek text of the fragments, in a new selection, with facing English translation. The testimonia (all newly translated) are presented in a new selection, designed to clarify the structure of the atomists A Presocratics Reader. 10. LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS: FIFTH-CENTURY ATOMISM. Almost nothing is known of Leucippus, who was the founding theorist of atomism. Epicurus, a post-Aristotelian philosopher who adopted certain aspects of Presocratic atomism is even said to have denied that Leucippus existed. Leucippus' birthplace is variously given as 2. Atomist Doctrine. Leucippus is named by most sources as the originator of the theory that the universe consists of two different elements, which he called 'the full' or 'solid,' and 'the empty' or 'void'. Both the void and the solid atoms within it are thought to be infinite, and between them to constitute the elements of |ptx| rky| rmp| ibu| cxz| gzp| nlk| fjn| jet| vvw| cnt| xsp| hly| vpc| wfh| ufm| ahl| ucu| ilj| bvh| sqf| nuv| gtg| bcw| bwp| rbd| flw| diu| eio| rol| fve| qbb| ywl| dhh| cgm| aop| hiv| yaj| jca| kbb| yhg| tdb| hzs| qyn| lxu| zhu| kbk| axh| nxm| fxb|