Though Aristotle and Plato largely discredited this man's work, men such as Epicurus and Lucretius found truth in this "Laughing Philosopher's" ideas.
Though Aristotle and Plato largely discredited this man's work, men such as Epicurus and Lucretius found truth in this "Laughing Philosopher's" ideas. Comparatively little remains of his Small World Systems and Little Cosmology, but the critiques of his work on the "void" and his most recognized theory, which was later confirmed with John Dalton's early nineteenth century discoveries, survive. FTP, name this student of Leucippus, the Greek philosopher partly credited with the creation of the atomic theory.          |
Though Aristotle and Plato largely discredited this man's work, men such as Epicurus and Lucretius found truth in this "Laughing Philosopher's" ideas.
{Democritus}