Democritus of Abdera (c. 470-c. 380 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3579. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Philosopher, born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. Wrote many mathematical works, of which none survive. Suggested that the Milky Way was made up of crowded individual stars. Best known as an atomist philosopher, he claimed that the universe was a mechanical system obeying fixed laws, explaining its origin through atoms moving randomly and colliding to form larger bodies and worlds. In many ways Democr...

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