1. Atomism Atomism was devised by Leucippus and his student Democritus

2. 7 So this is Democritus' cosmology - a universe ruled largely by chance.

3. Atomism The Atomists: Atomism was devised by Leucippus and his student Democritus

4. A few hundred years after Democritus, the Hellenistic era revived the Atomist philosophy

5. Democritus' writings were voluminous, and several of the recorded titles sound medical in nature.

6. The fundamental tenet of Democritus' physics is that all that exists is matter.

7. In medieval Arabic and Hebrew works Atomism derives from Greek (Democritus, Epicurus) and Indian sources

8. What does Atomism mean? The ancient theory of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, according to which simple, minute, indivisible, and indestruc

9. Atomism definition: an ancient philosophical theory, developed by Democritus and expounded by Lucretius , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

10. Democritus understood Ataraxy as the rule of reason over passions and the freedom of the soul from the fear of death and other misfortune

11. Atomism - (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of …

12. ‘He was not an Atomist in the mould of Democritus, but he did conceive of atom-like fundamental particles of the four Empedoclean elements.’ ‘But whereas the Greek Atomists had to guess and imagine, John Dalton, a Quaker and a chemist, used modern scientific reasoning.’

13. ‘He was not an Atomist in the mould of Democritus, but he did conceive of atom-like fundamental particles of the four Empedoclean elements.’ ‘But whereas the Greek Atomists had to guess and imagine, John Dalton, a Quaker and a chemist, used modern scientific reasoning.’

14. Tutorial on Gas Flow, Conductance, Pressure Profiles Units and Definitions [2] •Without bothering Democritus, Aristoteles, Pascal, Torricelli et al… a modern definition of “vacuum” is the following (American Vacuum Society, 1958): “… given space or volume filled with gas at pressures below atmospheric pressure” •Keeping this in mind, the following curve [2] defines the