Democritus

with the invention of scanning tunneling microscopes. But the ideas go all the way back to ancient Greece. The beginning of the atom start around 450 B.C. with a Greek philosopher named Democritus. Democritus and a younger contemporary of Socrates. He was born in Abdera in 460 B.C. His teacher was Leucippus. Democritus was known as the laughing philosopher because he really understood cheerfulness. He stated that all things were made up of tiny little things which he called “atomos: which is…

Sixth- to fifth-century B.C.E. philosophers spent their lives trying to make the world more comprehensible. Most of the pre-Socratics were naturalists, so they explained the world they saw in terms of natural things. These early philosophers believed that the universe was more systematic and rational, that the world functioned apart from the gods or divine authority, and that it was more scientific and fact-based. Naturalism centered on empirical facts, and scientific principles and laws,…

”(OI/https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-facts-about-atoms-603817).Over time the theories about the atom have changed a lot, moving from simple to complex. Before 1900, scientists made several breakthroughs about the atom. First, in 450 BC, Leucippus and Democritus were the first people to propose that matter is made of atoms (Doc. 1). Next in 1661, Robert Boyle suggested that chemical elements were the simplest forms of matter(Doc. 1). After that, in…

In this paper, I am going to give my response to the Atomist philosophy put forth by the pre-Socratic philosophers Leucippus and Democritus. Some main points of the atomists readings that I am going to write about in this paper include the different characteristics of the atom, the empty space these atoms move around in, and how we perceive these atoms. Overall, I feel like the atomist have a very good base of ideas for their time. However, there are a few ideas that can be considered dated. I…

How big is ‘small’? Is it a grain of sand, a speck of dirt, a strand of hair, a drop of water? Is it the size of what humans can see, with our own two eyes? Is ‘small’ bigger than that? Or is it much, much less? For years, people tried to discover the definition of small for the scientific world. Does ‘small’ act the same way as ‘big’? Can the movements of ‘small’ be described and categorized? All of these questions were analyzed over and over by scientist for hundreds of years, to form what is…

Atomic Theory The atom is the smallest unit of an element. It is composed of two main parts. The nucleus is the central point of an atom. Compacted in that small space are neutrons and protons that constantly jiggle. Neutrons are uncharged particles that add mass to the nucleus without adding a charge. The protons are positively charged particles that are also located in the nucleus and symbolized as p+. The second part of an atom is the electron cloud. The electron cloud is a cloud…

Bahmani 12.20.16 Franey//Adams Chem P.6 Going back through history the experiments, discoveries, and works of past scientists such as Democritus, Dalton, Thomson, and Rutherford have afforded us the opportunity to draw from their ideas to formulate a modern view and accurate understanding of the atom. Thanks to the evolution of atomic models. In the beginning, Democritus viewed the atom as a tiny, solid, round sphere, that was unable to be cut. He created the first model of an atom, that…

John Dalton was born September 6th, 1766 in Eaglesfield, England. Both of his parents, Joseph and Deborah were both Quakers who owned a house and a small little yard. Due to them being Quakers, they were seen as rebels by the established Church of England, which blocked his educational opportunities. John was a brainy child who looked at the world a little more closely than normal kids. At age 11, he attended a school in his town, but then became a teacher helper. Around 15 John started to help…

THE CLASSIC ERA. In this the Socratic era, Socrates and his followers, set out to form great philosophies which turn out be the main platform of Western civilisation. The lesser Socratics, the Platonic Academy, the Aristotelian Lyceum, and the Hellenistic movements, start here and all later thought has to take account of these and a great part of it consists essentially of an elaboration or a commentary upon, or a criticism of, theses movements. The questioning method of Socrates was the…

In the chapter “Democritus, Sophie is asked “Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?”(Gaarder 44). This question then leads to the philosopher, Democritus, who is known for the atom theory. Alike the structure of legos, he believed all atoms that made up the universe were “eternal, immutable, and indivisible”(Gaarder 45). Furthermore, Democritus believed all atoms were firm and solid and were all different. Since they were all different, he thought they could join together and form all…