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Leucippus

500 BC - 500 BC

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Leucippus (; Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl. 5th century BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists between the atoms. He developed his philosophy as a response to the Eleatics, who believed that all things are one and the void does not exist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leucippus is the 74th most popular philosopher (up from 91st in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 67th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Leucippus is most famous for being the first philosopher to propose the idea of atoms.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Leucippus ranks 74 out of 1,267. Before him are Xenophanes, Gorgias, Ibn Arabi, Nagarjuna, Pliny the Elder, and Peter Abelard. After him are Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, Nicholas of Cusa, Rudolf Steiner, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

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Among people born in 500 BC, Leucippus ranks 4. Before him are Artaxerxes I of Persia, Anaxagoras, and Pāṇini. After him are Xanthippe, Ezra, Xerxes II of Persia, Brennus, Zeuxis, Artemisia I of Caria, Ajatashatru, and Myron. Among people deceased in 500 BC, Leucippus ranks 2. Before him is Esther. After him are Ānanda, Polykleitos, Artemisia I of Caria, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Myron, Hippasus, Rāhula, Himilco, and Xanthippus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Leucippus ranks 55 out of 1,347. Before him are Alp Arslan (1029), Şehzade Mustafa (1515), Xenophanes (-570), Mehmed VI (1861), Zoë Porphyrogenita (978), and Ammianus Marcellinus (330). After him are Osman II (1604), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Croesus (-596), Suleiman II (1642), Mahmud II (1785), and Hipparchus (-190).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Leucippus ranks 8. Before him are Heraclitus (-535), Diogenes (-404), Anaximander (-610), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), and Xenophanes (-570). After him are Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Chrysippus (-281), Proclus (412), and Posidonius (-135).

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