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	Democritus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Democritus, according to Diogenes Laertius, was instructed by these Magi in astronomy and theology.
		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.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/democrit.htm (748 words)

	The Atomistic Philosophy of Leucippus and Democritus
		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.
		Democritus began with stating a notion of space that served as its premise.
		Democritus' theory had no place for the notion of purpose and the intervention of gods in the workings of the world.
	www.thebigview.com /greeks/democritus.html (1282 words)

	Democritus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory.
		Democritus is flying in the face of at least one strand of commonsense when he claims that textures produce the appearance of hot or cold, impacts cause colour sensations.
		Democritus apparently recognized that his view gives rise to an epistemological problem: it takes our knowledge of the world to be derived from our sense experience, but the senses themselves not to be in direct contact with the nature of things, thus leaving room for omission or error.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/democritus (5057 words)

	Democritus
		Democritus pioneered many notable theories and activities in that time span though he is most widely known for his development of an atomistic ontology.
		Though he is known as a contemplative thinker, Democritus was fondly referred to as “the laughing philosopher”, given his affable personality and tendency to remain cheerful even in the midst of publicly critiquing what he considered to be the foolishness of society.
		Democritus was considered by many in his time to be something beyond mortal because of what they believed was his gift for predicting the future.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Democritus (266 words)

	Democritus
		Democritus, probably the greatest of the Greek physical philosophers, was a native of Abdera in Thrace, or as some say -- probably wrongly -- of Miletus.
		Democritus devoted considerable attention to the structure of the human body, the noblest portion of which he considered to be the soul, which everywhere pervades it, a psychic atom being intercalated between two corporeal atoms.
		Although, in accordance with his principles, Democritus was bound to regard the soul as material (composed of round, smooth, specially mobile atoms, identified with the fire-atoms floating in the air), he admitted a distinction between it and the body, and is even said to have looked upon it as something divine.
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	Democritus
		Democritus was a student of Leucippus and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable indivisible (or perhaps undivided) elements which he called "atomos", from which we get the English word atom.
		Democritus' theory of perception depends on the claim that eidola or images, thin layers of atoms, are constantly sloughed off from the surfaces of macroscopic bodies and carried through the air.
		Democritus is also said to have contributed to Mathematics, and to have posed a problem about the nature of the cone.
	jania.pe.kr /wiki/jwiki/moin.cgi/Democritus (354 words)

	DEMOCRITUS -FRAGMENTS - FULL TEXT - of Abdera The Presocratic Philosophers - by G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven. The ...
		Democritus told her not to worry, and kept himself alive by inhaling the fresh smell of baked loaves until the end of the festival, when he relinquished his life without pain.
		Democritus was a man of vision who, in the 5th Century BC, developed an atomic theory that anticipated modern principles of matter and energy, who recognised the Milky Way as light from other stars, and who didn't believe in the gods but thought man was responsible for his own future.
		Democritus expanded on the core theory that the universe is composed of atoms moving in a void into a worldview that influenced much of his work in other fields.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /democritus.htm (5415 words)

	Democritus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; lived to be very old, but died at an unknown date).
		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.
		Democritus is also the first philosopher we know who realized that what we perceive as the Milky Way is the light of distant stars.
	www.encyclopedian.com /de/Democritus.html (751 words)

	Democritus - Greek Philosopher - Crystalinks
		Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; died in 370 BC).
		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 "atomos", from which we get the English word atom.
		Democritus is also the first philosopher we know who realized that what we perceive as the Milky Way is the light of distant stars.
	www.crystalinks.com /democritus.html (1043 words)

	Democritus - MSN Encarta
		Democritus viewed the creation of worlds as the natural consequence of the ceaseless whirling motion of atoms in space.
		Democritus also wrote on ethics, proposing happiness, or “cheerfulness,” as the highest good—a condition to be achieved through moderation, tranquillity, and freedom from fear.
		In later histories, Democritus was known as the Laughing Philosopher, in contrast to the more somber and pessimistic Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562516/Democritus.html (246 words)

	Democritus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory.
		Democritus is flying in the face of at least one strand of commonsense when he claims that textures produce the appearance of hot or cold, impacts cause colour sensations.
		Democritus apparently recognized that his view gives rise to an epistemological problem: it takes our knowledge of the world to be derived from our sense experience, but the senses themselves not to be in direct contact with the nature of things, thus leaving room for omission or error.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/democritus (5052 words)

	Democritus
		Democritus was an original thinker in ethical theory, setting high standards of personal integrity and social responsibility, without invoking supernatural sanctions.
		Hermippus wrote that when Democritus was nearing his end, his sister was upset because his death could prevent her from worshipping at the three-day festival of Thesmophoria.
		Democritus told her not to worry, and kept himself alive by inhaling the fresh smell of baked loaves until the end of the festival, when he relinquished his life without pain.
	www.humanistictexts.org /democritus.htm (3667 words)

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		Democritus was a much more prolific writer and is credited with writing fifty-two works, although some were quite short.
		Both Leucippus and Democritus believed that the senses were not completely reliable in what they report to the mind.
		Using this basic theory of atoms and voids, Democritus then deduced a cosmogony, or a method for the formation of the universe.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Marc/short_paper.html (877 words)

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		Democritus was a philosopher and physicist, master of all the sciences and the founder of atomic physics.
		Democritus travelled widely, visiting Egypt, Babylon, Persia, possibly India, and Athens and exhausting his great wealth in the process; so that he returned to Abdera a poor man, but delighted with all he had seen and learned.
		Democritus offers the illustration of motes moving in a sunbeam when there is no wind.
	www.lycos.com /info/democritus.html (779 words)

	Democritus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Democritus was a Greek Philosopher who lived between 470 BC and 380 BC in Abdera, Thrace; a northern territory of Greece.
		Democritus did not seem to feel as though he was as popular around Greece as other Philosophers saw him to be.
		Democritus was very well known and respected by most of the early philosophers, however Plato seemed to hate him and even wanted all of his books burned.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/ancient/athens/Democritus.htm (1181 words)

	Alexandroupolis Airport About Democritus
		Democritus, according to Diogenes Laertius, was instructed by these Magi in astronomy and theology.
		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.
		Maintaining his atomic theory throughout, Democritus introduced the hypothesis of images or idols (eidola), a kind of emanation from external objects, which make an impression on our senses, and from the influence of which he deduced sensation (aesthesis) and thought (noesis).
	www.alxd.gr /Airport/DemocritusE.html (745 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Democritus - The Laughing Philosopher (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Democritus was a man of vision who, in the 5th Century BC, developed an atomic theory that anticipated modern principles of matter and energy, who recognised the Milky Way as light from other stars, and who didn't believe in the gods but thought man was responsible for his own future.
		Democritus was born into considerable wealth in the Thracian city of Abdera in the north-eastern corner of Greece in around 460BC.
		Democritus expanded on the core theory that the universe is composed of atoms moving in a void into a worldview that influenced much of his work in other fields.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3936026 (1830 words)

	Democritus Biography and Summary
		Democritus of Abdera is best known for his atomic theory of the universe, but also made significant contributions to the study of geometry.
		It was Democritus who first stated that the volume of a cone is one-third that of a cylinder with the same base and height, and that th...
		Democritus was a student of Leucippus and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imp...
	www.bookrags.com /Democritus (397 words)

	Democritus. Greek Philosophers on cosmology and myth
		Diogenes Laertius gives a long list of books written by Democritus, dividing them into the groups ethics, virtue, physics, "no head", mathematics, literature and music, and the arts.
		Since all the senses work on inflow of atoms carrying their respective characteristics, to Democritus it was obvious that one could not say to know reality as it was, but only as its fragments reached its observers.
		No more than his teacher did Democritus involve the gods in his cosmos, and so also with him it can be said that we have no statement of his swearing to it, but at least in all cosmological matters he should be regarded as an atheist.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/democritus.htm (295 words)

	Democritus biography
		Democritus certainly visited Athens when he was a young man, principally to visit Anaxagoras, but Democritus complained how little he was known there.
		Democritus was disappointed by his trip to Athens because Anaxagoras, then an old man, had refused to see him.
		To Democritus freedom of choice was an illusion since we are unaware of all the causes for a decision.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Democritus.html (1548 words)

	Democritus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He held that all things were composed of atoms; these he asserted to be tiny particles, imperceptible to the senses, composed of exactly the same matter but different in size, shape, and weight.
		Democritus postulated the constant motion of atoms and, on this basis, explained the creation of worlds.
		Democritus’ ethics were moderately hedonistic, teaching that the true end of life is happiness achieved in inner tranquility.
	www.bartleby.com /65/de/Democrit.html (252 words)

	Democritus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The atoms had various shapes, Democritus thought, for "why should they have one shape rather than another?" All change was to be explained by reference to the transfer of momentum as the atoms collided.
		Democritus suggested that our cosmos was formed by a spinning vortex of such atoms and that there were an infinite number of worlds formed in the same way.
		Democritus' belief in the unchanging nature of the intelligible universe and the changing nature of the sensible universe was a direct confrontation of the ideas of Parmenides, who denied all change, and Heraclitus, who denied all constancy.
	chemistry.mtu.edu /~pcharles/SCIHISTORY/Democritus.html (294 words)

	Democritus
		Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; died in 370 BC).
		Democritus is said to have had a happy disposition, and is sometimes referred to as the "laughing philosopher," as opposed to Heraclitus, who is known as the "weeping philosopher." In the Divine Comedy Dante sees the shade of Heraclitus in Limbo with those of other classical philosophers.
		Democritus of Abdera biography page by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Democritus.html (1194 words)

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