~~Leucippus~~



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Name: Leucippus Date of birth and death: unknown, during the fifth century BCE Country of origin: Greece

Little is known about Leucippus and it is hard to distinguish his views from those of his associate Democritus. Greek tradition says he was a student of Zeno of Elea and regards him as the founder of atomism in physics. Aristotle also credits Leucippus with the foundation of the atomist system. Leucippus is also said to be the author of a work called //The// //Great World-System//. Leucippus is said to have set the idea in motion that all matter is composed of atoms and that atoms are always in motion. He is said to be the originator of the theory that the universe consists of two different elements which he called 'the solid' and 'the void'. These elements made up everything and the atoms within the elements were infinite.

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