10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEUCIPPUS»
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1
The Atomists,
Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments : a Text ...
Includes the Greek text of the fragments with facing English translation, notes, commentary, and complete indexes and concordances.
2
A Presocratics Reader (Second Edition): Selected Fragments ...
Epicurus, a post-Aristotelian philosopher who adopted certain aspects of
Presocratic atomism is even said to have denied that Leucippus existed.
Leucippus' birthplace is variously given as Miletus, Abdera, and Elea (Miletus
and Elea could ...
Patricia Curd, Richard D. McKirahan, 2011
3
The Pre-Platonic Philosophers
FIFTEEN Leucippus and Democritus We know nothing of Leucippus; Epicurus
and Hermarch(us) deny his existence altogether.1 He is said to be from either
Abdera or Miletus; Aristotle calls Democritus Leucippus's disciple (fexaipoq), ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock, 2001
4
Philosophy Before Socrates (Second Edition): An Introduction ...
The third and most ambitious response to the Eleatic challenge was the atomic
theory, invented by Leucippus and developed by Democritus. Leucippus is a
shadowy character1 who we are told was from (a) Miletus, (b) Elea, and (c)
Abdera,2 ...
Richard D. McKirahan, 2011
5
The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All ...
Before Leucippus and Democritus, the doctrine of atoms was not made a whole
entire philosophy by itself, but looked upon only as a part or member of the whole
philosophic system, and that the meanest and lowest part too, it being only used
...
Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, 1845
6
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
This temperate appeal was lost upon the heart of Bacha, who from that moment
was secretly bent upon effecting the destruction of Leucippus. Her project was, by
feeding the ears of the Duke with exaggerated praises of his son, to awaken a ...
"Alas! poor youth," replied Leucippus, "why do you follow me, who am as poor as
you are?" " In good faith," was his pretty answer, " I shall be well and rich enough
if you will but love me." And saying so, ho wept. The Prince, admiring this ...
Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, 1859
8
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
It was Leucippus's own resolute denial of any such thing as a contract having
passed between them which had led to the proposal.” The Prince, unable to
extenuate his share of blame in the calamity, humbly besought her, that “ since by
his ...
9
5th-Century Bc Philosophers; Democritus, Confucius, ...
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The Founders of Western Thought – The Presocratics: A ...
The works of the Physical section, which are also the most numerous (sixteen),
contain the treatises, Small World-System and Great World- System, portions of
which are attributed to Leucippus. His writings are, by general consent, literary ...
Constantine J. Vamvacas, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEUCIPPUS»
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Leucippus is used in the context of the following news items.
Bright Ideas
In the fifth century B.C., Democritus, with guidance from his teacher Leucippus, postulated that everything in the world consists simply of ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
Rubens Painting Cast Off by Metropolitan Museum as a Copy …
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1610–1611), from the National Museum of Art Architecture and Design in Oslo, had also been judged ... «artnet News, Mar 15»
Manuscript on Chemical Bonds: Lesson 1 Review on Atomic …
Interesting to note, the first (on record) to think of dividing an object into its smallest portion is a philosopher named Leucippus. Later ... «Science 2.0, Mar 15»
Breaking bond
The science of chemical bonding has taken a few but astonishing leaps since Leucippus's elementary atomic theory in 450 BC. By the mid-20th ... «Hindu Business Line, Feb 15»
Rubens and His Legacy at the Royal Academy reviewed: his …
On the other hand, there are marvellous things hidden away, sketches such as a tiny one for 'The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus' ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jan 15»
Jenny Saville: for the love of Rubens
... another rape scene, Rubens's tiny oil sketch for The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus. “The movement's really lovely, isn't it?” she smiles. «Evening Standard, Jan 15»
Why Mark Zuckerberg is the last to know about cool new Facebook …
Flickr/leucippus. Apple could be selling a mind-blowing number of iPhones this quarter, according to a bunch of Chinese export/import data ... «Business Insider, Dec 14»
A Brief History of Butts in Art
... 1622; William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Nymphaeum, 1878; Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of Daughters of Leucippus, 1618; Diego Velázquez, ... «Vulture, Nov 14»
The Void Is A Busy Place
This is why Leucippus and Democritus, the pair of pre-Socratic Greek philosophers credited with the invention of the atomic concept — that ... «NPR, Oct 14»
Democritus: Empirical Rationalist
(I would be remiss if failed to stress that Leucippus, the mentor of Democritus, is actually considered the founder of atomism. Historians say it is difficult to ... «Philosophy Now, Sep 14»
