1. Leucippus [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] 5th century BCE founder of atomism.Category Society Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy......leucippus (fifth century BCE.). leucippus was the founder of Atomism. Aristotlegives a clear and intelligible account of the way leucippus' theory arose. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/leucippu.htm

Leucippus (fifth century BCE.) Leucippus was the founder of Atomism. We know next to nothing about his life, and his book appears to have been incorporated in the collected works of Democritus. No writer subsequent to Theophrastos seems to have been able to distinguish his teaching from that of his more famous disciple. Indeed his very existence has been denied, though on wholly insufficient grounds. Aristotle gives a clear and intelligible account of the way Leucippus' theory arose. It originated from Parmenides' denial of the void, from which the impossibility of multiplicity and motion had been deduced. Leucippus supposed himself to have discovered a theory which would avoid this consequence. He admitted that there could be no motion if there was no void, and he inferred that it was wrong to identify the void with the non-existent. Leucippus was the first philosopher to affirm, with a full consciousness of what he was doing, the existence of empty space. The Pythagorean void had been more or less identified with 'air', but the void of Leucippus was really a vacuum. Besides space there was body, and to this Leucippus ascribed all the characteristics of Parmenides notion of the real. The assumption of empty space, however, made it possible to affirm that there was an infinite number of such reals, invisible because of their smallness, but each possessing all the marks of the Parmenidean One, and in particular each indivisible like it. These moved in the empty space, and their combinations can give rise to the things we perceive with the senses. Pluralism was at least stated in a logical and coherent way. Democritus compared the motions of the atoms of the soul to that of the particles in the sunbeam which dart hither and thither in all directions even when there is no wind, and we may fairly assume that he regarded the original motion of the other atoms in much the same way.

2. John Burnet: Early Greek Philosophy -- Leucippus Of Miletus It is true that the very existence of leucippus has been called in question. http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch9.htm

Introduction The Life of Plato The Crito The Phaedo ... Credits and E XPLORING P LATO'S D IALOGUES A Virtual Learning Environment on the World-Wide Web Early Greek Philosophy Leucippus of Miletus John Burnet Leucippus and Democritus Theophrastus on the Atomic Theory Leucippus and the Eleatics Atoms ... Importance of Leucippus 171. Leucippus and Democritus ) that the school of Miletus did not come to an end with Anaximenes , and it is a striking fact that the man who gave the most complete answer to the question first asked by Thales was a Milesian. It is true that the very existence of Leucippus has been called in question. Epicurus is reported to have said there never was such a philosopher, and the same thing has been maintained in quite recent times. On the other hand, Aristotle and Theophrastus certainly made him the originator of the atomic theory, and they can hardly have been mistaken on such a point. Aristotle was specially interested in Democritus , and his native Stageirus is not very far from Abdera , the seat of the Atomist school. The question is intimately bound up with that of the date of Democritus , who said that he himself was a young man in the old age of Anaxagoras , a statement which makes it unlikely that he founded his school at Abdera much before 420 B.C., the date given by

3. The Atomistic Philosophy Of Leucippus And Democritus leucippus and Democritus Abdera, 460 370 BC. With the work of leucippusand Democritus ancient Greek philosophy reaches its zenith http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/democritus.html

Leucippus and Democritus [Abdera, 460 - 370 BC] With the work of Leucippus and Democritus ancient Greek philosophy reaches its zenith when the initial question of Thales after the true nature of matter culminated 180 years later in the subtle concept of atoms, which bears an amazing resemblance to the twentieth century's view of chemistry. For this reason, Leucippus and Democritus have undoubtedly deserved the first price for the best guess in antiquity, as far as natural science is concerned. Unfortunately their contemporaries did not share their views with the same enthusiasm. Leucippus is a very shadowy figure; his exact dates are unknown, some even say he never existed, but it is likely that he was a contemporary of Empedocles (around 440 BC) and that he came either from Miletus or from Elea. Democritus, who was a disciple of Leucippus, is a more certain figure. He was born 460 BC in Abdera in the north of Greece and died at the age of 90 years, after leaving an expansive work elaborating his philosophy including the atomistic theory in great detail. Democritus has written approximately 70 books and hence overshadows his master by far. Unfortunately none of his writings remained intact, but a great deal of what he said has survived in Epicurus. The atomistic theory began as an endeavor to overcome the odd logical consequences of the Eleatic school. Leucippus and Democritus did not accept the Eleatic hypothesis that "everything is one" and that change and motion is an illusion. Parmenides had said the void is a fiction, because saying the void exists would mean to say there is something that is nothing, which he thought is a contradiction in itself, but he was deceived by thinking of "being" in the sense of "material being". Thinking of the void as real would have overthrown Parmenides' theory, because allowing the void to exist as "space bereft of body" (Aristotle) with adjoining plenums implies the opposite of classical monism.

4. Leucippus leucippus (fifth century BCE.) was the founder of Atomism. leucippus' theory originated from Parmenides' denial of the http://members.tripod.com/l_asproni/Atom/Leucippus.htm

Atomism Next The Conception of Atomism in Greek and Latin Philosophy Leucippus (fifth century BCE.) L eucippus (fifth century BCE.) was the founder of Atomism. Leucippus' theory originated from Parmenides' denial of the void, from which the impossibility of multiplicity and motion had been deduced. Leucippus supposed himself to have discovered a theory which would avoid this consequence. He admitted that there could be no motion if there was no void, and he inferred that it was wrong to identify the void with the non-existent Leucippus was the first philosopher to affirm , with a full consciousness of what he was doing, the existence of empty space The Pythagorean void had been more or less identified with 'air', but the void of Leucippus was really a vacuum. Besides space there was body, and to this Leucippus ascribed all the characteristics of Parmenides notion of the real. The assumption of empty space, however, made it possible to affirm that there was an infinite number of such reals, invisible because of their smallness, but each possessing all the marks of the Parmenidean One, and in particular each indivisible like it. These moved in the empty space, and their combinations can give rise to the things we perceive with the senses. Pluralism was at least stated in a logical and coherent way. Democritus compared the motions of the atoms of the soul to that of the motes in the sunbeam which dart hither and thither in all directions even when there is no wind, and we may fairly assume that he regarded the original motion of the other atoms in much the same way.

5. LEUCIPPUS leucippus, Greek philosopher, born at Miletus (or Elea), ounder of the Atomistic theory, contemporary of Zeno, Empedocles and Anaxagoras http://89.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LE/LEUCIPPUS.htm

document.write(""); LEUCIPPUS See DEMOCRITUS. On the Rohde-Diels controversy as to the existence of Leucippus, see F. Lortzing in Bursian's Jahresbericht, vol. cxvi. (1904); also J. Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (1892).

6. Encyclopædia Britannica Only fragments of leucippus' writings remain, but two works believed to have been written by http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=49069

7. Leucippus leucippus of Miletus. leucippus of Miletus carried on the scientificphilosophy which had begun to become associated with Miletus. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leucippus.html

Leucippus of Miletus Born: about 480 BC in (possibly) Miletus, Asia Minor Died: about 420 BC Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Leucippus of Miletus carried on the scientific philosophy which had begun to become associated with Miletus. We know little of his life but it is thought that he founder the School at Abdera on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos River. Today the town is in Greece and is called Avdhira. At the time that Leucippus would have lived in Abdera it was a prosperous town which politically was a member of the Delian League The philosopher Protagoras was born in Abdera and he was a contemporary of Leucippus but Protagoras, the first of the Sophists , spent most of his life in Athens and may have left Abdera before Leucippus arrived there. Although now there seems little doubt that Leucippus existed, it is worth remarking that Epicurus , at the end of the fourth century BC, actually believed that Leucippus had never existed since so little was known of him. However we now know enough in the way of independent evidence to be sure that Leucippus did exist. Aristotle refers to Leucippus as a philosopher with rather different views to those of Parmenides Aristotle refers to him several times and quotes from his works on a number of occasions. For example in

8. Democritus [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] 4th century BCE philosopher of Abdera who expanded the atomic theory of leucippus. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/democrit.htm

Democritus (460-370 BCE.) Credit cannot be given to the tale that Democritus spent his leisure hours in chemical researches after the philosopher's stone the dream of a later age; or to the story of his conversation with Hippocrates concerning Democritus's supposed madness, as based on spurious letters. Democritus has been commonly known as "The Laughing Philosopher," and it is gravely related by Seneca that he never appeared in public with out expressing his contempt of human follies while laughing. Accordingly, we find that among his fellow-citizens he had the name of "the mocker". He died at more than a hundred years of age. It is said that from then on he spent his days and nights in caverns and sepulchers, and that, in order to master his intellectual faculties, he blinded himself with burning glass. This story, however, is discredited by the writers who mention it insofar as they say he wrote books and dissected animals, neither of which could be done well without eyes. Democritus expanded the atomic theory of Leucippus. He maintained the impossibility of dividing things ad infinitum . From the difficulty of assigning a beginning of time, he argued the eternity of existing nature, of void space, and of motion. He supposed the atoms, which are originally similar, to be impenetrable and have a density proportionate to their volume. All motions are the result of active and passive affection. He drew a distinction between primary motion and its secondary effects, that is, impulse and reaction. This is the basis of the law of necessity, by which all things in nature are ruled. The worlds which we see with all their properties of immensity, resemblance, and dissimilitude result from the endless multiplicity of falling atoms. The human soul consists of globular atoms of fire, which impart movement to the body. Maintaining his atomic theory throughout, Democritus introduced the hypothesis of images or idols (

9. References For Leucippus References for leucippus. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York19701990). Articles J Barnes, Reason and necessity in leucippus, in Proc. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Leucippus.html

References for Leucippus Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: C Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1928). J Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy W K C Guthrie, History of Greek Philosophy II (Cambridge, 1965). G S Kirk and J E Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1957). Articles: J Barnes, Reason and necessity in Leucippus, in Proc. First International Congress on Democritus (Xanthi, 1984), 141-158. E Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London-New York, 1998), 578-579. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961), 82-90. Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR April 1999 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/References/Leucippus.html

10. Leucippus Biography of leucippus (480BC420BC) leucippus of Miletus. Born about 480 BC in (possibly) Miletus, Asia Minor http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leucippus.html

Leucippus of Miletus Born: about 480 BC in (possibly) Miletus, Asia Minor Died: about 420 BC Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Leucippus of Miletus carried on the scientific philosophy which had begun to become associated with Miletus. We know little of his life but it is thought that he founder the School at Abdera on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos River. Today the town is in Greece and is called Avdhira. At the time that Leucippus would have lived in Abdera it was a prosperous town which politically was a member of the Delian League The philosopher Protagoras was born in Abdera and he was a contemporary of Leucippus but Protagoras, the first of the Sophists , spent most of his life in Athens and may have left Abdera before Leucippus arrived there. Although now there seems little doubt that Leucippus existed, it is worth remarking that Epicurus , at the end of the fourth century BC, actually believed that Leucippus had never existed since so little was known of him. However we now know enough in the way of independent evidence to be sure that Leucippus did exist. Aristotle refers to Leucippus as a philosopher with rather different views to those of Parmenides Aristotle refers to him several times and quotes from his works on a number of occasions. For example in

11. Exploring Plato's Dialogues: Topical Index: Home|Historical Context|Philosophy A Directory Home Historical Context Philosophy and Science TheAtomists leucippus, Files Essays Burnet, John. Early Greek http://plato.evansville.edu/search/Historical_Context/Philosophy_and_Science/The

Introduction The Life of Plato The Crito The Phaedo ... Credits and E XPLORING P LATO'S D IALOGUES A Topical Search Engine and Index for Scholars of Plato Select Search Domains Set Search Type Articles/Essays Bibliographies Book Reviews Lecture Notes ... Primary Texts Cascade Search Single Page Only Enter Your Search Request and Click "Search" Search Help Selecting Domains Setting the Type Formulating the Request Directory: Home Historical Context Philosophy and Science The Atomists Leucippus Files: Essays Burnet, John. Early Greek Philosophy: Leucippus of Miletus (Exploring Plato's Dialogues). [#000089 - 59.45K] Lectures Fieser, James, ed. " Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy : Leucippus " (University of Tennessee, Martin). [#000150 - 5.23K]

12. Leucippus - Wikipedia leucippus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In fact, it is virtually impossibleto identify any views about which Democritus and leucippus disagreed. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucippus

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Leucippus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leucippus was the originator of atomism (in the 5th century), the philosophical belief that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms There are no existing writings which we can attribute entirely to Leucippus, since his writings seem to have been enfolded into the work of his famous student Democritus (see for more on atomism). In fact, it is virtually impossible to identify any views about which Democritus and Leucippus disagreed. In Greek mythology Leucippus , son of Gorgophone and Perieres , was the father of Phoebe and Hilaeira Castor and Polydeuces abducted and married Phoebe and Hilaeira , the daughters of Leucippus. In return

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14. CGFA- Rubens: The Rape Of The Daughters Of Leucippus Branch of Science " Philosophers Nationality " Greek leucippus of Miletus (ca. 490unknown BC) Greek philosopher who invented the theory of atomism, but did not pursue it. He believed that there were two states of matter atoms and voids. He is http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/rubens/p-rubens7.htm

15. Philosophical Dictionary: Leibniz-Logos leucippus (c. 450 BCE). Presocratic philosopher and atomist who opposedthe Eleatics and argued that everything that happens is strictly http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/l5.htm

Philosophy Pages F A Q Dictionary ... Locke Leibniz, Gottfried W. German mathematician and philosopher who invented the integral calculus independently of Newton and developed an intricate pluralistic philosophy, according to which individual substances are dimensionless mathematical points ( monads ) functioning in a pre-established harmony with each other. For a discussion of his life and works, see Leibniz Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Russian revolutionary who led the October Revolution of 1917 and became head of state. His State and Revolution at Amazon.com Marx 's principles to the success of the Bolshevik revolution. On Lenin's view, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a temporary expedient that will inevitably lead to the creation of a truly socialist government. In his Materialism and Empiro-Criticism at Amazon.com Philosophical Notebooks (1929), Lenin sought to purge Marxism of any tendency toward subjective idealism by encouraging critical study of Hegel Recommended Reading: Vladimir Lenin, Essential Works of Lenin: 'What Is to Be Done?' and Other Writings at Amazon.com

16. Leucippus (fifth Century B.C.) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z leucippus (fifth century BC) http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/Leucippus.htm

The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight about main latest news news archive ... Z Leucippus (fifth century B.C.) Greek philosopher and originator, together with Democritus , of the theory of atomism which Epicurus later developed. Although no original writings of Leucippus or Democritus survive, fragments of their teachings have been transmitted by later scholars such as Diogenes Laertius of the third century A.D. who, in his Lives of Famous Philosophers , notes: Leucippus holds that the whole is infinite . . . part of it is full and part void . . . Hence arise innumerable worlds, and are resolved again into these elements. See ancient philosophy, related to the possibility of extraterrestrial life var site="s13space1234"

17. Leucippus leucippus. leucippus, fl. 5th century BC, was a Greek philosopher and the founderof atomism. Democritus developed and popularized the ideas of leucippus. http://chemistry.mtu.edu/PAGES/HISTORY/Leucippus.html

18. Leucippus Of Miletus (ca. 490-unknown BC) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scie Alphabetical Index. About this site. Branch of Science , Philosophersv. Nationality , Greek v. leucippus of Miletus (ca. 490unknown BC), http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Leucippus.html

Branch of Science Philosophers Nationality Greek Leucippus of Miletus (ca. 490-unknown BC) Greek philosopher who invented the theory of atomism, but did not pursue it. He believed that there were two states of matter: atoms and voids. He is supposed to have been the pupil of Zeno and instructor of Democritus . He is also supposed to have been the first to state the law of causality. Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews) Author: Eric W. Weisstein

19. STEFAN STENUDD - Leucippus. Cosmos Of The Ancients ----------- leucippus. COSMOS OF THE ANCIENTS The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology by Stefan Stenudd, Swedish author and Historian of Ideas. leucippus. http://www.stenudd.com/myth/greek/leucippus.htm

About the writer Stefan Stenudd Cosmos of the Ancients The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology Leucippus egarding Leucippus (flourished c. 430 BC) it is reasonable to do as Aristotle did in his writing, pairing him with his student Democritus. Almost nothing is known about his own life. He is said to have written only one book, The Great World-Order , the title implying that it would suffice. Yet, a remaining quotation is from a text entitled On Mind , which may be a chapter of it or another book of his: "Nothing happens at random; everything happens out of reason and by necessity." Leucippus and Democritus have the essence of their cosmology in common, some basic terminology of it probably invented by the former, though the latter is by far the most famous of the two, and more well-documented. Diogenes Laertius says that Leucippus was the student of Zeno, and that he stated about the world: The sum of things is unlimited, and they all change into one another. The all includes the empty as well as the full. The worlds are formed when atoms fall into the void and are entangled with one another; and from their motion as they increase in bulk arises the substance of the stars. The atom, the particle so small it cannot be divided, was a concept further developed by his student Democritus, but already with Leucippus, if Diogenes is to be trusted, much of this cosmology was formed. This is also how Aristotle treats the two – as of one opinion in cosmological matters. The unlimited all, according to Leucippus, is made up of part full and part empty, and to him those are the real elements – full being the atoms and empty being the space between them. Out of this mixture numerous worlds arise, and eventually dissolve. This happens through a vortex taking place when atoms enter the void, and thereby atoms alike join, arranging themselves according to their "shape, order and position" into a spherical system. Out of this, the earth – being drum-shaped – is formed.

20. Cls 189 Short Web Paper The Atomists leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera. by Marc Wohnsigl April14, 1994. I. Introduction; II. Conclusion. Introduction. leucippus, born ca. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Marc/short_paper.html

The Atomists: Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera by Marc Wohnsigl April 14, 1994 I. Introduction II. Atomists vs. Eleatics III. Atomist Theory A. Basic Theory B. Senses C. Cosmogony IV. Conclusion Introduction Leucippus, born ca. 500 BCE, and his pupil, Democritus, born ca. 460 BCE, are credited with postulating the theory of Atoms and Void. Democritus expanded upon Leucippus' original theory and theorized on many of its detailed applications like perception. Leucippus is credited with writing only a few works, including The Great World System , in which he postulates his theory on atoms and void. Democritus was a much more prolific writer and is credited with writing fifty-two works, although some were quite short. These included his expansion on Leucippus' work in The Little World System , and eight works on ethics. Unfortunately, while his work on ethics comprised only a small portion of his work, nearly all the existing fragments from his work are from the ethical works. Atomists vs. Eleatics Leucippus' theory was a reaction to the theories of Parmenides and Zeno; it was an attempt at a reconciliation of elliptic principles and our senses.

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