What did leucippus and Democritus discover?

The first proponents of an atomic theory were the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus who proposed the following model in the fifth century B.C. ... Matter is composed of atoms separated by empty space through which the atoms move. 2. Atoms are solid, homogeneous, indivisible, and unchangeable. read more

Democritus was born in Abdera, Greece in 460BC. He lived to be 90 years old, dying in the year 370BC. He studied natural philosophy in Thrace, Athens, and Abdera, Greece. read more

He did belong to a sc ool called materialists, as they believed that the universe followed a set of rules (‘laws’), and that discussions of things like ‘prime mover’ were irrelevant. To quote Wikipedia: “Democritus, along with Leucippus and Epicurus, proposed the earliest views on the shapes and connectivity of atoms. read more

The first proponents of an atomic theory were the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus who proposed the following model in the fifth century B.C. 1. Matter is composed of atoms separated by empty space through which the atoms move. read more