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    As Leucippus considered both atoms and the void to be infinite, he presumed that other worlds must exist as cosmoses are formed elsewhere. Leucippus and...
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    Greek mythology, Leucippus (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιππος, romanized: Leukippos, lit. 'white horse') was a young man of Phaistos, Crete. Leucippus was born to Lamprus...
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  • Leucippus may refer to: Leucippus, a Greek philosopher Leucippus (mythology), several figures in Greek mythology. Leucippus (bird), a hummingbird genus...
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  • mythology, Leucippus (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιππος, romanized: Leúkippos, lit. 'white horse') is a name attributed to multiple characters: Leucippus (son of...
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    The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a 1618 painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Wildens. It is displayed at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The...
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    physics. Democritus was a student of Leucippus. Early sources such as Aristotle and Theophrastus credit Leucippus with creating atomism and sharing its...
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    Polydeuces abducted and married Leucippus' daughters, Phoebe and Hilaera. In return, Idas and Lynceus, nephews of Leucippus and rival suitors, killed Castor...
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    of Leucippus' success in love, however Leucippus' ruse was soon discovered when the girls took a bath in a lake; they stripped a reluctant Leucippus naked...
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  • she died, and Leucippus then attacked Xanthius, not recognizing his father, killing him as well. For the murder of his father Leucippus was exiled, and...
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  • mythology, Leucippus (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιππος Leukippos, "white horse") was the eighth king of Sicyon who reigned for 53 years. Leucippus was the son...
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  • descendant of Bellerophon, and father of Leucippus and an unnamed daughter. Through the wrath of Aphrodite, Leucippus fell in love with his own sister. The...
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    walled plain Landau. To the southwest of Leucippus is the larger satellite crater Leucippus Q. The rim of Leucippus is eroded, with a smaller crater laid...
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  • Caffrocrambus leucippus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Graziano Bassi in 1994. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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  • Titans, grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. Phoebe (daughter of Leucippus), daughter of Leucippus. Phoebe, a hamadryad who became one of King Danaus's many...
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    be traced back towards pre-scientific and Greek philosophers such as Leucippus and Democritus who argued that all the universe is composed of atoms and...
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    phoîbos, "shining") was a Messenian princess. Phoebe was the daughter of Leucippus[AI-generated source?] and Philodice, daughter of Inachus. She and her...
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  • and Leucippus reverted the Eleatic axiom, claiming that since motions exist, What-is-not must also exist; hence void exists. Democritus and Leucippus were...
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    Ἱλάειρα; also Ilaeira) was a Messenian princess. Hilaera was a daughter of Leucippus[AI-generated source?] and Philodice, daughter of Inachus. She and her...
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  • King Leucippus. He was father of Plemnaeus who succeeded him to the throne of Aegialea (former name of Sicyon). Peratus' grandfather, King Leucippus, brought...
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    Nothing (section Leucippus)
    between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Leucippus (early 5th century BC), one of the atomists, along with other philosophers...
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    maintains that there is only one possible way for the world to exist. Leucippus claimed there are no uncaused events and that everything occurs for a...
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    Democritus Diogenes of Sinope Empedocles Epicurus Gorgias Heraclitus Hypatia Leucippus Parmenides Plato Protagoras Pythagoras Socrates Thales Zeno Authors Aeschylus...
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    or consort.[AI-generated source?] His children besides Hippodamia were Leucippus (who perished because of his love for Daphne) and Alcippe (mother of Marpessa...
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    found to be correct approximately 2000 years after it was proposed by Leucippus and his pupil Democritus. During the classical period in Greece (6th,...
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    was previously placed in the genus Leucippus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Leucippus was polyphyletic. To avoid the polyphyly...
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  • besieged it. Leucophryne fell in love with Leucippus and betrayed the city to him. It is not known whether Leucippus answered her feelings and what her further...
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  • "οὐθὲν γάρ, ὡς φαμέν, μάτην ἡ φύσις ποιεῖ" (Politics I 2, 1253a9) and Leucippus: "Everything that happens does so for a reason and of necessity." natura...
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  • science.: 465  The theory of atoms was developed by the Greek philosopher Leucippus and his student Democritus. Later, Epicurus would develop a full natural...
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    species was formerly placed in the genus Leucippus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Leucippus was polyphyletic. To resolve the polyphyly...
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    hummingbird was formerly placed in the genus Leucippus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Leucippus was polyphyletic. To resolve the polyphyly...
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