According to Leucippus and Democritus, the atom was indivisible. Today we know that is not true.
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Democritus
/dɪˈmɒkɹɪtəs/
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Plato and Aristotle rejected the ideas of Democritus and Leucippus.
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Parmenides wrote about 470 B. C. He is represented as a serious and influential man, with a high moral character. He exercised strong influence upon such philosophers as Plato and Democritus, and was a political power in the city of Elea, of which he was a native. He was not a stranger to the Pythagoreans. The large fragment of his poem is the most ancient monument extant of metaphysical speculation among the Greeks.
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