Directory of Democritus Resources

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Democritus of Abdera, c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC. Prominent Greek philosopher of Socrates' time who developed the atomistic worldview first proposed by Leucippus.

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• Atomism

  http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/atomism.htm
  S. Marc Cohen's lecture notes on Democritus, considering this thinker in the broader context of Presocratic and Socratic thought.

• Democritus

  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Democritus.html
  Article by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Emphasizes this philosopher's work in physics and geometry.

• Democritus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus
  Article from the Wikipedia openly-edited encyclopedia.

• Democritus

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/democrit/
  Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, summarizing this thinker's life and teachings.

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