# The atom and the Bohr theory of its structure

Author: Holst, Helge, 1871-1944; Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952; Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Lindsay, Rachel T., 1898-1990 [Translator]; Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-1985 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70708

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## Summary

As early as 400 B.C. the Greek philosopher, Democritus, taught that the world consisted of empty space and an infinite number of small invisible particles. These particles, differing in form and magnitude, by their arrangements and movements, by their unions and disunions, caused the existence of physical bodies with different characteristics, and also produced the observed variations in these bodies. This theory, which no doubt antedated Democritus, later became known as the Atomic Theory, since the particles were called atoms, _i.e._ the “indivisible.”

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atom-and-the-bohr-theory-of-its-structure-70708/chapters/3/index.md)