Antiquity

Antiquity

About 2,500 years ago, the easternmost part of the Mediterranean enjoyed extraordinarily advanced forms of art and philosophical and political ideas. Greek philosophers were among the first to explore Nature rationally and to propose hypotheses based on reason about the creation of the world and the universe. That is why ancient Greece is considered the cradle of our civilization.

Leucippus and, above all, his disciple Democritus solved philosophically the problem of the constitution of matter by inventing, without any experimental evidence, the concept of the atom (a-tomos = indivisible).

It seems logical to think that by dividing things in two, each half in two, and so on, one could reach a particle so small that it would be indivisible.

Nature is made of void and atoms, indivisible, eternal and unchanging material particles. Atoms differ from one another only in their shapes and sizes. The soul itself is a set of subtle, round and light atoms. Sensory knowledge is due to objects emitting very fine substances that act on the senses.