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To: Dan3 who wrote (89239)10/2/1999 6:37:00 AM
From: nihil   of 186894
 
Democritus propounded the atomic theory in late 5th century BCE, adopting the ideas from Leucippus who founded the school earlier in the century. Epicurus (342?-270 BCE) adopted the idea as part of his philosophy which was later expounded by Lucretius (96?-55 BCE). Every Greek and Roman scientist or philosopher was familiar with atomic theory, but the Stoics, Platonists, and Aristotelians (and many others) rejected it because of its association with "atheistic" Epicureanism. Only fragments of most of this survived, and it wasn't until John Dalton (1766-1844) that a good start to modern atomic theory was published.
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