Who originally described atoms as small, indivisible spheres?
1 Answer
Mar 24, 2017
See this [old answer............](https://socratic.org/questions/who-rst-proposed-that-matter-is-composed-of-tiny-indivisible-particles?source=search)
Explanation:
You speak of Democritus, a 6th century BC Greek.
Why was Democritus' early idea of atomism abandoned? Well, basically his musings were purely on a philosophical basis, and he performed no experiments (so far as we know) on which he could base, and test his ideas.
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