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Μαθηματικα / Φυσικες Επιστημες / Αστρονομια / Κοσμολογια της ατομικης Θεωριας

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Η ατομική θεωρία με εισηγητή το Λεύκιππο και κύριο θεμελιωτή το Δημόκριτο, έχει θεωρηθεί το επιστέγασμα της προσωκρατικής φιλοσοφίας όχι μόνο από χρονολογική άποψη, αφού ο Δημόκριτος υπήρξε σύγχρονος του Σωκράτη και του Πρωταγόρα, οι οποίοι, μετά από την κοσμολογική περίοδο των Προσωκρατικών, εγκαινίασαν την ανθρωποκεντρική περίοδο της αρχαίας ελληνικής φιλοσοφίας, αλλά και από φιλοσοφική άποψη, διότι ο ατομικισμός είναι η πιο επεξεργασμένη θεωρία σε σχέση με όσες είχαν προηγηθεί. Μια αποτίμηση της συμβολής της οφείλει, συνεπώς, να ανατρέξει στις ιστορικές αφετηρίες της. (ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)

672 pages, Unknown Binding

Published October 1, 2004

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Democritus

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Democritus (greek: Δημόκριτος)(ca. 460 - ca. 370 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the most prolific and influential of the pre-Socratics and whose atomic theory is regarded as the intellectual culmination of early Greek thought. For this atomic theory, which echoes eerily the theoretical formulations of modern physicists, he is sometimes called the "father of modern science." He was well known to Aristotle, and a thorn in the side to Plato - who advised that all of Democritus' works be burned.

A cheerful and popular man with the citizenry for his uncanny ability to predict events, his was known among his fans as the "Laughing Philosopher," a title that may well have referred more to his scoffing rejection of assigning to gods the mechanistic operations of nature itself. His cosmology and atomic theory held that the world was spheroid, that there were many worlds and many suns, and that all things manifest in nature were comprised of atoms bound together. There are varying accounts of his age at death, ranging from a ripe 90 all the way to 109 years.

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