https://www.superphysics.org/tags/stoic/ Recent content in Stoic on Superphysics Hugo en Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-47/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-47/ <p>¹ Leucippus was a native of Velia or of Abdera or of Melos.</p> <p>² He was a pupil of Zeno.</p> <p>His principal doctrines were:</p> <ul> <li>all things were infinite and were interchanged with one another</li> <li>the universe was a vacuum full of bodies</li> <li>the worlds were produced by bodies falling into the vacuum, and becoming entangled with one another</li> <li>the nature of the stars originated in motion, according to their increase</li> <li>the sun is borne round in a greater circle around the moon</li> <li>the earth is carried on revolving round the centre</li> <li>its figure resembles a drum</li> </ul> <p>He was the first to spoke of atoms as principles.</p>