Visual Timeline: Democritus

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460 BCE - 370 BCE: Life of Democritus, pupil of Leucippus; development of the concept of the atomic universe.
 
445 BCE: Leucippus of Abdera, the philosopher, is said to have conceived of the atomic universe. His pupil is Democritus.
 
 
 
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