Early Beginnings
- 440 BC Democritus speculates about fundamental indivisible particles—calls them "atoms"
- 2nd century BC Kanada theorizes the existence of four kinds of atoms, which could combine to produce diatomic and triatomic molecules.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Atomic And Subatomic Physics
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or beginnings:
“An early dew woos the half-opened flowers”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)