~Leucippus


 * //Leucippus (500 BCE-420 BCE)//**

Country of Origin: Miletus, Greece Leucippus was an influential teacher of Democritus and a contemporary of Zeno, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras. His pupil wrote so many books and expanded so much on his theories that he became an overshadowed individual. Leucippus was not one to believe in or follow the Eleatic hypothesis that “everything is one” and that change and motion were just an illusion so he became the founder of atomism. Leucippus, being the founder of atomism helped set in motion the idea that all matter was composed of atoms. Although his theories would be overshadowed by his pupil and later scientists to come, his ideas were nonetheless influential. He set in motion the idea that everything was composed of atoms and that atoms are always in motion in space.



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