Democritus & the Atomists, by Anthony Kenny, Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy

THE ATOMISTS

Democritus was the first significant philosopher to be born in mainland Greece: he came from Abdera, in the north-eastern corner of the country. He was a pupil of one Leucippus, about whom little is known. The two philosophers are commonly mentioned together in antiquity, and the atomism which made both of them famous was probably Leucippus’…