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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".
What are similarities or differences between the ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus concept of the atom and Dalton's atomic theory?
The early philisophers (Leukippus and Democritus) 2500 years ago couldnt prove that atoms existed, and people had not discovered the study of matter yet. The idea of Greeks was genial but is only a philosophical suppostion, only that.Dalton combined the idea of elements with the earlier history of the atom, and the chemical and physical knowledge from 1800.
Why Democritus's idea of atoms was dismissed?
Aristotle
Who championed the idea of the atom about 400 BC?
Democritus
What matches Democritus and idea of the atom?
Matter is composed from small particles called atoms.
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 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.
What was the important idea that democritus had 2000 years ago about the substances that make up the world?
1. Recall the important idea that Democritus had 2000 years ago about the substances that make up the world.
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".
What are similarities or differences between the ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus concept of the atom and Dalton's atomic theory?
The early philisophers (Leukippus and Democritus) 2500 years ago couldnt prove that atoms existed, and people had not discovered the study of matter yet. The idea of Greeks was genial but is only a philosophical suppostion, only that.Dalton combined the idea of elements with the earlier history of the atom, and the chemical and physical knowledge from 1800.
Who had the first idea about atom?
democritus
Why did the ancient reject Democritus idea about atom?
The greeks rejected democritus's idea because they thought that there was something smaller than the atoms.
What is the idea that everything is made up of small particles?
The idea of atomic structure of the world was proposed intuitively by Leukippus and Democritus 2 500 years ago.
Who is famous for the idea of an atom?
Democritus from Abdera
Why Democritus's idea of atoms was dismissed?
Aristotle
Who proposed the idea that everything is made of atoms?
It was John Dalton in the early 1800s.
What did democritus study?
Democritus did not perform a single experiment to support his ideas. He was a philosopher, and his idea of indivisible particles he called "atoms" was simply an idea that, much later, gained scientific support. In a sense, it was just a lucky hunch.
