The Orgins Of Atomic Theory

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hypothesizes, to further our understanding of any number of things. We
divide science into categories and then sub-divide it even farther, until we can
hide the connections and pretend that they really are separate. The difference
between psychology and physics is not as extreme as one would believe if they
were to read their definitions. Though the means are different the goal is the
same for all science: to increase our understanding of our earthly domain, and
to improve ourselves. The Greeks created this guiding principle more than two
thousand years ago.

Greek atomic theory was not the work of a single person, in fact it was a
product of many great minds. There were many fundamental ideas that formed the
basis for their theory on the make up of the universe. One-hundred and forty
years before Socrates there was a lesser-known scholar named Thales, and he was
the Father of Philosophy.

Thales was from a part of Greece called Miletus, and it was for his skill as an
engineer, not ...

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or adequately explained was supernatural. Thales felt
that all things were in a state of constant flux, and that all things were
uniform in their make-up but different in their order and number. This would be
proven thousands of years later and become the basis for modern Chemistry.

Roughly one hundred years passed before any of the great thinkers of Athens
looked further into Thales' theories on matter. They focused on the
philosophical aspects of the world, the hidden meaning of life and other
timeless questions. Socrates and his cohorts formulated grand theories about the
human soul and psyche, the search for knowledge of self consumed their thoughts
and their writings. Their ...

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