Today, we meet one of the first scientists who really started to think about what makes up our world. Meet Democritus, the person who developed a model for the atom, chemistry's most known word.
**References:**
1. **Aristotle.** *Metaphysics* & *On Generation and Corruption*.
2. **Diogenes Laërtius.** *Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers* (Book IX, Chapter 7 focuses specifically on the life, travels, eccentricities, and alleged book-burning plots surrounding Democritus).
3. **Lucretius.** *De Rerum Natura* (*On the Nature of Things*).
4. **Kirk, G.S., Raven, J.E., & Schofield, M.** *The Presocratic Philosophers*. Cambridge University Press.
5. **Pullman, Bernard.** *The Atom in the History of Human Thought*. Oxford University Press.
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