THE Greek philosopher Democritus was not the first person to suggest matter is made of tiny particles. But he got the credit when scientists finally accepted the idea 2,000 years after his death.

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn’t ...

IT is the epic of the successive dynasties of the atom that Mr. Gregory sets himself to recount in his very interesting book. From Democritus, who was the first to discuss atoms, down to the present ...

Paul Shorey, Democritus on the New Education, Classical Philology, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul., 1918), pp. 313-314 ...