Leucippus
c. 480 BCE–c. 420 BCE · Abdera
Originator of atomism; teacher of Democritus; held that all is atoms moving in the void.
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AbderaThrace
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Abdera
A wealthy Greek colony on the Thracian coast that—despite a reputation for foolish citizens—produced two of antiquity's sharpest minds: the atomist Democritus and the sophist Protagoras.
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