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What idea are Leucippus and his student Democrites remembered for?
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Coining of the term "atom" and the idea that matter was composed of small, invisible, indivisible particles.
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When did Leucippus discover the atomic theory?
Approx. 2 500 years ago. However, let's get our terminology straight: Leucippus didn't "discover" anything, except possibly that his fellow Greeks were willing to listen to any crazy idea you pulled out of your posterior. Leucippus and/or Democritus (his student) were the people who first talked about "atoms", but they had no idea what they were really like or even that they really existed.
Do you know who is Leucippus?
Leucippus and Democritus were important Greek philosophers from the antiquity. Leucippus was the first to have the idea of an atomic structure of all kinds of matter, 2500 years ago. Democritus was his disciple.
What was the basic idea about matter the leucippus and democritus proposed?
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What was the basic idea about matter that leucippus and democritus propose?
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Who said that matter is made up of individual particles and cannot be subdivided?
Leucippus and his pupil Democritus thought of the idea in the 5th century BC. Leucippus is not usually given credit for this, so the most common answer to the question would be Democritus.
What did Leucippus discover?
Leucippus or Leukippos was a Greek scientist who lived sometime around 450-500 years BCE. He didn't so much "discover" as theorized. He was one of the earliest scientists to come up with the theory of atomism, that everything is made up of particles that cannot be divided up any further. The Greeks called these particles "atoms". His disciple was Democritus.
Why was the credit for atomic theory not given to leucippus democritus when they were the first people to express the idea?
because the credit was given to Dylan Narvadez (buang)
Who develope the idea of Atom?
The idea of the atom was first developed by Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus in 5th century BC. Their idea was overlooked until Antoine Lavoisier's experiments were done in the 18th century.
What is democritus ang lencippus?
Leucippus or Leukippos was a Greek scientist who lived sometime around 450-500 years BCE. He was one of the earliest scientists to come up with the theory of atomism, that everything is made up of particles that cannot be divided up any further. The Greeks called these particles "atoms".
When did they came up the theory of atoms?
The pre-modern idea of atomic theory was proposed by Greek thinkers like Democritus, Leucippus, and the Epicureans, which would have been at about 500 to 300 BC.
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