101. Democritus democritus was born at abdera. His father was from a noble family and of greatwealth, After several years of traveling, democritus returned to abdera, http://www.philosophyprofessor.com/philosophers/democritus.php

@import url(http://www.philosophyprofessor.com/side/cssphp.css); HOME Philosophies Philosophers Library ... Zeno of Elea web here SITE MAP Democritus (460-360 BC) Democritus was born at Abdera. His father was from a noble family and of great wealth, and contributed largely towards the entertainment of the army of Xerxes on his return to Asia. As a reward for this service the Persian monarch gave and other Abderites presents and left among them several Magi. Democritus, according to Diogenes Laertius, was instructed by these Magi in astronomy and theology. After the death of his father he traveled in search of wisdom, and devoted his inheritance to this purpose, amounting to one hundred talents. He is said to have visited Egypt, Ethiopia, Persia, and India. Whether, in the course of his travels, he visited Athens or studied under Anaxagoras is uncertain. During some part of his life he was instructed in Pythagoreanism , and was a disciple of Leucippus After several years of traveling, Democritus returned to Abdera, with no means of subsistence. His brother Damosis, however, took him in. According to the law of Abdera, whoever wasted his patrimony would be deprived of the rites of burial. Democritus, hoping to avoid this disgrace, gave public lectures. Petronius relates that he was acquainted with the virtues of herbs, plants, and stones, and that he spent his life in making experiments upon natural bodies. He acquired fame with his knowledge of natural phenomena, and predicted changes in the weather. He used this ability to make people believe that he could predict future events. They not only viewed him as something more than mortal, but even proposed to put him in control of their public affairs. He preferred a contemplative to an active life, and therefore declined these public honors and passed the remainder of his days in solitude.

102. TMTh:: DEMOCRITUS democritus was a philosopher and physicist, master of all the sciences and He was born in 460 BC in the Thracian city of abdera, a place renowned for http://www.tmth.edu.gr/en/aet/2/36.html

Home Ancient Greek Scientists AGRICULTURALISTS ARCHITECTS ... PHYSICISTS MATHEMATICIAN, ASTRONOMER, PHYSICIST DEMOCRITUS (fl. 460-370 BC) Life Democritus was a man with an all-embracing mind, as is evident from the scope of his writings, of which unfortunately only fragments remain. His philosophy incorporates virtually the entire body of knowledge of his age, while in their impressively comprehensive range his works can only be compared with those of Aristotle. Work According to Diogenes Laertius, Democritus wrote some 70 treatises; of these, only fragments survive in the works of later writers. His most important works (by general category) are: 1. PHYSICS (books 25): "Great World System (Megas Diakosmos) ", ""Lesser World System" (Micros Diakosmos), ", "Cosmography", "On the planets", "On nature", "On the nature of man", "On the mind", "On senses", "On flavours", "On colours", "On the different states", "On successions of states", "Determining forces", "On images", "On the rules of logic´", "On disputed points", "Celestial causes" (celestial mechanics), "Causes relating to air" (aerostatics), "Causes relating to the plane" (statics), "Origins of fire and of fiery states" (heat and thermodynamics), "Origin of sounds" (acoustics), "Origin s f seeds and plants and fruits" (biology), "Origins of animals a, b, c" (zoology), "Origins of divers things" (miscellany), "On minerals" (mineralogy). 2. MATHEMATICS (5 books): "On a difference of opinion or on the contact between a circle and a sphere", "On geometry", "Geometry", "Numbers", "On irrational lines and solids".

103. Democritus democritus was a Greek Philosopher who lived between 470 BC and 380 BC in Upon his return to abdera, democritus was broke and had no means of support. http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/ancient/athens/Democritus.htm

Democritus Democritus was a Greek Philosopher who lived between 470 BC and 380 BC in Abdera, Thrace; a northern territory of Greece. He is by far the most influential of the Presocratic philosophers. He was best known for his atomic theory, even though he did produce a number of works dealing with areas such as Physics, astronomy, biology, ethics, mathematics and grammar. During this summary of his life, I would like to discuss the history of Democritus and some of the teachings that he produced. During his studies of philosophy, Democritus produced a number of works; approximately 73 works or papers and about 50 books. Of all of these, none of the books exist today and merely a fragment of his works exist. For some reason, all of his books were destroyed during the third and fifth centuries. However, we do have a list of the titles of these books thanks to Thrasyllus who catalogued all of them and arranged them into tetralogies, the same way he did Plato's. Some of the works that Democritus produced have an effect on western science even today, by way of Epicurus; a follower of Democritus. Democritus was a very interesting philosopher. He lived during a time of great learning and a number of different theories on how everything began, including life and the universe. He seems to have had a good grasp on what existence is and how it came about. However, he answers the question of how atoms are randomly moving things, but he does not tell us why they move randomly or how they began to move randomly.

104. Democritus - Definition Of Democritus In Encyclopedia a preSocratic Greek philosopher (born at abdera in Thrace around 460 BCE; democritus was a student of Leucippus, and co-originator of the belief http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Democritus

Add to Favorites General Encyclopedia Legal ... Law forum Search Word: Visit our Law forums Labor Law Accidents Law Bankruptcy Law Business Law ... Tax Law Bust of Democritus Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BCE ; lived to be very old and died in 370 BCE ). Democritus was a student of Leucippus , and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable indivisible elements which he called " atoms ". It is virtually impossible to tell which of these ideas were unique to Democritus, and which are attributable to Leucippus. Democritus is also the first philosopher we know who realized that what we perceive as the Milky Way is the light of distant stars. Other philosophers, including later Aristotle , argued against this. Democritus was among the first to propose that the universe contains many worlds, some of them inhabited: "In some worlds there is no Sun and Moon, in others they are larger than in our world, and in others more numerous. In some parts there are more worlds, in others fewer (...); in some parts they are arising, in others failing. There are some worlds devoid of living creatures or plants or any moisture." Hendrick ter Brugghen , "Democritus Laughing" (1629) He was also a pioneer of mathematics and geometry in particular. We only know this through citations of his works (titled

105. History Of Mathematics: Greece abdera democritus; Alexandria Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Eratosthenes,Euclid, Hypatia, Hypsicles, Heron, Menelaus, Pappus, Ptolemy, Theon http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/greece.html

Greece Cities Abdera: Democritus Alexandria : Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Eratosthenes, Euclid , Hypatia, Hypsicles, Heron, Menelaus, Pappus, Ptolemy, Theon Amisus: Dionysodorus Antinopolis: Serenus Apameia: Posidonius Athens: Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Socrates, Theaetetus Byzantium (Constantinople): Philon, Proclus Chalcedon: Proclus, Xenocrates Chalcis: Iamblichus Chios: Hippocrates, Oenopides Clazomenae: Anaxagoras Cnidus: Eudoxus Croton: Philolaus, Pythagoras Cyrene: Eratosthenes, Nicoteles, Synesius, Theodorus Cyzicus: Callippus Elea: Parmenides, Zeno Elis: Hippias Gerasa: Nichmachus Larissa: Dominus Miletus: Anaximander, Anaximenes, Isidorus, Thales Nicaea: Hipparchus, Sporus, Theodosius Paros: Thymaridas Perga: Apollonius Pergamum: Apollonius Rhodes: Eudemus, Geminus, Posidonius Rome: Boethius Samos: Aristarchus, Conon, Pythagoras Smyrna: Theon Stagira: Aristotle Syene: Eratosthenes Syracuse: Archimedes Tarentum: Archytas, Pythagoras Thasos: Leodamas Tyre: Marinus, Porphyrius Mathematicians Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550)

106. Anaxagoras Philosophy Of Nature Just Like Empedocles, Anaxagoras democritus was born in abdera, that is relatively certain. According to anotherstory, democritus was born in Miletus. http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/greekphil/greek08.htm

Anaxagoras' Philosophy of Nature Just like Empedocles, Anaxagoras accepted the impossibility that one thing changes into anther, which was advocated by the Eleatic philosophy and yet Anaxagoras attempted to explain the empirical phenomena of change by mixture and separation of the universe. Anaxagoras maintained that there was neither creation, generation, nor corruption of nature, but from the beginning, everything had been in everything . Namely his famous doctrine is, Everything is in everything Therefore, it is not possible to isolate, for example, pure water itself or pure air as such, for everything is in everything else. Anaxagoras further held that the greatest (largest) or maximum and the smallest or minimum do not exist, for the large or the small are mere relative concepts and that anything can be large or small. This is very important and has been held to be true even until today. Against Empedocles who considered the two principles of motion, love for mixture and strife for separation, Anaxagoras held only Reason ( ho nous ) as the principle of separation.

107. A Personal Voyage -- The Backbone Of Night, By Carl Sagan At American Buddha Onl democritus came from the Ionian town of abdera on the Northern Aegean shore. democritus may have come from abdera, but he was no dummy. http://www.american-buddha.com/backbone.night.htm

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108. Dorlands Medical Dictionary democritus (demok¢ribreve-tschwas) of abdera (De·moc·ri·tus(de-mok¢ribreve-tschwas) of abdera) c. 460–c. 370 B.C. a Greek philosopherwho was http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszS

109. Early Greek Philosophy - The Presocratics From Thales To Democritus Biographies of the PreSocratics from Thales to democritus. http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/

Greek Philosophy Back to Table of Contents Introduction Thales of Miletus Pythagoras of Samos ... Democritus of Abdera (Leucippus)

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