Category: History - Other
It is safe to say that there is no more romantic story in the history of science than that of the origin and development of the atomic theory of matter. Dr. Robert A. Millikan has said that the physical principles laid down by Leucippus in the fifth century before our era migh...
It is safe to say that there is no more romantic story in the history of science than that of the origin and development of the atomic theory of matter. Dr. Robert A. Millikan h...
2. CHAPTER IIWhile the Atomic Theory is usually identified with the name of Democritus, its real founder was Leucippus, as is attested by both Aristotle (384-322 B. C.) and his successor, Th...
3. CHAPTER IIIOne of the problems that early perplexed the human mind was that of motion. Parmenides, of the Eleatic school, could not conceive of movement of bodies without vacuous space, an...
4. CHAPTER IVEpicurus (341-270 B. C.) agreed with Democritus in assuming that the atoms are infinite in number, but he denied that they were infinitely various in shape, though their variety...
5. CHAPTER VThe two principal links in the chain which binds the world of the ancient Greek (and _one_ Roman) Atomists with those of our own times are Descartes (1596-1650) and Gassendi (15...