Bio/Background:
- Born: in Abdera in about 460 BCE, or according to some, was born closer to 490 BCE.
- Teacher: Leucippus - who also had an atomic theory, which Democritus later built upon.
- Atomos = Greek word for "indivisible"
Theory:
- Democritus was the first to identify the possibility of an atom, which would be the smallest piece of matter
- He theorized that atoms are inpenetrable and have a density proportionate to their volume
- His theory states that atoms ate internal as is motion
- The fundamental idea in Democritus's theory is that nature behaves like a machine, it is nothing more than a highly complex mechanism
- Proved his theories with math
~Aristotle did not agree with Democritus's theories~
