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jan 1, 400 BC - Democritus

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Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed that everything in the world was made up of matter and empty space. He was the first to theorize about the atom, an indivisible building block. Due to not having any experimental evidence, his theory was not accepted.

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jan 1, 400 BC
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~ 2427 years ago

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