Leucippus
Britishnoun
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My new word honors the elder of the two proponents of the atomic hypothesis, Leucippus.
From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023
Long ago two ancient Greek savants, Democritus and Leucippus, argued that matter consists of atoms, a notion that would be confirmed more than two millennia later.
From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023
The atom within the thinking of Leucippus and Democritus refers to atomos as meaning “uncuttable” or “that which cannot be divided.”
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In the fifth century BC, Leucippus and Democritus argued that all matter was composed of small, finite particles that they called atomos, a term derived from the Greek word for “indivisible.”
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Presented with the night sky, Eratosthenes might have contemplated the cosmological speculations of Thales, Anaximander, Leucippus, and the Pythagoreans.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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