Atoms According to Democritus
Model by Modellbau Wünsche und Borkenhagen, Berlin

In the 4th century BC, natural philosophers try to explain the world on the basis of natural principles. Democritus claims that everything consists of minute, indivisible particles (atoms). These have an infinite number of different physical manifestations and are eternally moving in the void.

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