biography
pronunciation:
[demokritus]
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| lived:
| (c.460–370 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, born in Abdera, Thrace. He travelled in the East, and was by far the most learned thinker of his time. He wrote many physical, mathematical, ethical, and musical works, but only fragments survive. His atomic system assumes an infinite multitude of everlasting atoms, from whose random combinations springs an infinite number of successive world-orders in which there is law but not design. This system, derived from Leucippus, was developed by Epicurus and Lucretius. |
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