An intense and restless spirit, he would strive even as a young man to gain knowledge of other civilizations, investing his inheritance in visits to Egypt, Babylon, Persia, and possibly Ethiopia and India.
Democritus expanded his teacher, Leucippus’ idea of atoms as tiny bits of matter, He showed how every form of matter could be explained using his idea.
Democritus expressed that the world is made up of only vacuum and atoms - an infinite number of tiny, hard, indestructible particles which combine with one another in different ways to produce the variety of everything in the world both living and non-living.
Democritus is frequently mentioned by Aristotle. He was head of a School at Abdera, and was still alive when Plato founded the Academy.
Democritus’s brilliant intellect was steeped in the widest knowledge from all the domains of thought: mathematics, physics, grammar, logic, ethics, theology, aesthetics, history, education, art.
Democritus of Abdera (460-370 BC)
