Democritus by James Mahoney https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0 Made with magic en-us 2021-11-01 15:36:53 UTC 2021-11-08 14:26:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Death was 370 BCE jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859158552 2021-11-01 15:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859158552 His field of chemistry was atomic theory. He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indivisibly small “atoms.” jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859188996 2021-11-01 15:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859188996 Backstory on education and growing up: When his father died Democritus took his inheritance and spent it traveling to distant lands, slaking his nearly endless thirst for knowledge. He traveled over much of Asia, studied geometry in Egypt, went to the Red Sea and Persia regions to learn from the Chaldean's, and may have visited Ethiopia. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859204195 2021-11-01 16:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859204195 His personal hobbies were his works on atomic theory. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859214501 2021-11-01 16:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859214501 Democritus was known as the Laughing Philosopher jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859224591 2021-11-01 16:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859224591 Democritus had a thought experiment. The idea was if you took a material and divided it half, you would have a smaller but identical chunk. If you keep dividing your material, there should eventually be a point where you've reached the smallest representative element of your material. That element is the "atom" jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859230232 2021-11-01 16:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859230232 His rival was Aristotle jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859236671 2021-11-01 16:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859236671 Sources: 1. UCSB Science Line, http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=5525#:~:text=Democritus%20had%20a%20thought%20experiment,element%20is%20the%22atom%22. 2. Hirst, K. Kris. “Biography of Democritus, Greek Philosopher.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 29 Oct. 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/democritus-biography-4772355. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859248609 2021-11-01 16:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1859248609 The impact of his experiment, was astronomical. He changed everyone's point of view on everything made up of a certain material. He literally "blew their minds". jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861701863 2021-11-02 13:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861701863 Leucippus, was his right hand man and was before that his mentor! Which is crazy how you can surpass and demote someone who taught you everything into one of your men. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861727861 2021-11-02 14:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861727861 Democritus was born in Abdera Greece jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861788220 2021-11-02 14:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861788220 He influenced many new theory's about atomic theory and also argued that matter was subdivided into indivisible and immutable particles that created the appearance of change when they joined and separated from others. Which went against everything the poles of the ancient minds thought. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861834937 2021-11-02 14:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861834937 He was born in 460 BCE jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861844233 2021-11-02 14:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1861844233 He surprisingly didn't marry anyone, even though he was known and thought of as a genius by all around him. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1865126735 2021-11-03 15:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1865126735 To initially find the atom, Democritus conducted a simple experiment that can still be done today. What he did was take a simple seashell and break it in half. He then took that half and broke it in half over and over and over and over again until he was finally left with a fine powder. jmahoney241 https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1875214019 2021-11-08 14:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jmahoney241/c7kydkrkxkcscyj0/wish/1875214019