With many propagators including Democritus, Epicurus, Aristotle and their followers, this theory seems to have some contact with modern theories of what vision really is, but it remained only speculation lacking any experimental foundation.

" Similar to the atomists of Democritus, the Mo Jing stated that a point is the smallest unit, and cannot be cut in half, since ' nothing ' cannot be halved.

The case of Democritus is different from the case of, for example, Epimenides of Crete ( 7th, 6th centuries BC ), who is said to have lived 154, 157 or 290 years, as has been said about countless elders even during the last centuries as well as in the present time. The philosopher and theologian Ramanuja lived from 1017CE to 1137 CE. His body is said to be not perished and kept at Sri Ranganather temple, Trichy district, Tamilnadu India as exhibit These cases are not verifiable by modern means.

All the things that exist he teaches have been produced by nature ; not hence, as he says, according to that philosophy which claims these things are made of rough and smooth corpuscles, indented and hooked, the void interfering ; these, he upholds, are dreams of Democritus which are not to be taught but dreamt.

However, atomistic materialism implies that the soul, like the body, is fated to be snuffed out: such a view made Democritus quite unattractive to virtually all world religions so Democritus was ignored and marginalized by the history of philosophy, in spite of being one of the greatest thinkers of the ancient Greek world.

But the context shows clearly that perspective painting must be meant, for Vitruvius goes on to say that Democritus and Anaxagoras, carrying out the principles laid down in a treatise written by Agatharchus,

" Similar to the atomists of Democritus, the Mo Jing stated that a point is the smallest unit, and cannot be cut in half, since ' nothing ' cannot be halved.

The idea that the Moon was not perfectly smooth can be traced as far back as approximately 450 BC, when Democritus believed that there were " lofty mountains and hollow valleys " on the Moon.

Consequently, ancient philosophers used atomic theory to reach conclusions that today may be viewed as immature: for example, Democritus gives a vague atomistic description of the soul, namely that it is " built from thin, smooth, and round atoms, similar to those of fire ".

A remarkable statement mentioned by Diogenes Laertius ( c. 250 AD ) is the earliest ( or at least one of the earliest ) references about plausible centenarian longevity given by a scientist, the astronomer Hipparchus of Nicea ( c. 185 – c. 120 BC ), who, according to the doxographer, was assured that the philosopher Democritus of Abdera ( c. 470 / 460 – c. 370 / 360 BC ) lived 109 years.

Other notable philosophers of the Golden Age included Anaxagoras ; Democritus ( who first inquired as to what substance lies within all matter, the earliest known proposal of what is now called the atom or its sub-units ); Empedocles ; Hippias ; Isocrates ; Parmenides ; Heraclitus ; and Protagoras.

This dialect includes also the earliest Greek prose, that of Heraclitus and Ionic philosophers, Hecataeus and logographers, Herodotus, Democritus, and Hippocrates.

Anaxarchus (; ; c. 380-c. 320 BC ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus.

The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera.

The Greek philosopher Democritus ( 460 – 371 BCE ) blamed water in general for earthquakes.

The Greek philosopher Democritus ( 450 – 370 BC ) proposed that the bright band on the night sky known as the Milky Way might consist of distant stars.

Later he was referred to as the " weeping philosopher ," as opposed to Democritus, who is known as the " laughing philosopher.

* Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher, ( 460 BC – 370 BC )

* Democritus was a Greek philosopher and mathematician from Abdera, Thrace ( c. 460 – 370 BC.

** Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher ( d. 370 BC )

* 370 BC – Democritus, Greek scholar, philosopher, and astronomer ( b. c. 460 BC )

* 330 Democritus, Greek philosopher, develops Atomic theory, believes cause and necessity, nothing comes out of nothing

* Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher ( d. 370 BC )

* Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher ( approximate date ) ( b. c. 460 BC )

All other accounts given by the ancients about the age of Democritus appear, without giving any specific age, to agree that the philosopher lived over 100 years.

Atomism or social atomism is a sociological theory arising from the scientific notion atomic theory, coined by the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus and the Roman philosopher Lucretius.

It was named after the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus who was born in the city of Avdira.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Even though many of his teachings were heavily influenced by earlier thinkers, especially by Democritus, he differed in a significant way with Democritus on determinism.

Epicurus's teachings represented a departure from the other major Greek thinkers of his period, and before, but was nevertheless founded on many of the same principles as Democritus.

Montaigne proposed two archetypical views of human affairs based on them, selecting Democritus ' for himself.

Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.

Epicurus studied with Platonic and Stoic teachers before renouncing all previous philosophers, including Democritus, on whose atomism his own Epicurean philosophy relies.

Santayana was an early adherent of epiphenomenalism, but also admired the classical materialism of Democritus and Lucretius ( of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets, Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius ).

Having achieved his thesis on the Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus in 1841, the young Marx progressively broke away with the Prussian university and its teachings impregnated by German Idealism ( Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel ).

The thought of early philosophers such Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Democritus centered on the natural world.

He also envisioned sending a work on Democritus, a major focus of Lange, to Deussen.

* Léon-Alexandre Delhomme — Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul ( sculpture )

Democritus is a lunar impact crater that is located on the northern part of the Moon, just to the north of the Mare Frigoris.

Just to the south of Democritus is the lava-flooded crater Gärtner, which forms a bay on the mare.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Democritus.

He wrote this in Democrates alter de justis belli causis apud Indios ( A Second Democritus: on the just causes of the war with the Indians ).

Drawing on the ideas of Democritus and the Atomists, he espoused a materialistic philosophy where the universe was governed by the laws of chance without the need for divine intervention.