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 * Democritus Born: 460 B.C. Died: 370 B.C.
 * He was an ancient Greek Philosopher, born in Thrace, Greece.
 * Best know for his work on formulating an atomic theory for the cosmos. However, this thoery was not all his own his teacher Leucippus helped in the making of this theory.

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 * Leucippus Born and Died: 1st half century
 * Hails from: Miletus, Greece
 * This man is not a well known figure in history and his records were lost. Except it was known that Democritus was his pupil. Leucippus was the first Greek to develop the theory of atomisim. The theory states that everything is composed of various, imperishable, indivisible, elements called atoms.

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 * Aristotle, Born: 384 B.C. Died: 322 B.C.
 * Hails From: Stagira
 * Aristotle founded the Aristotelian School of Philosophy and his scientific journals where the first recorded scientific writings. These journals helped form the entire Western philosohpy at the time. When he was 17 Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy and upon graduation he became a teacher there for twenty years. After he taught he returned to Athens in 33 B.C. where he started his own school the Lyceum. Aristotle atomic theory was that everything was made up of proportions of either fire, air, earth, and water.