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Democritus
male - Democritus (Greek:) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. 460 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus and...
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Epicurus
male - Epicurus (Greek) (341 BC, Samos - 270 BC, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought in...
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Leucippus
male - Leucippus or Leukippos (Greek:, first half of 5th century BC) was among the earliest philosophers of atomism, the idea that everything is composed...
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Pierre Gassendi
male, deceased - Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 - October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer/astr
ologer, and mathematician, best known for...
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John Henry
male - John Henry is a Historian of Science in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh associated with the Strong Programme. He has...
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Melissus Of Samos
- Melissus of Samos was a Samian statesman and naval commander who also contributed to philosophy, and bore influence upon the atomism of Leucippus...
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Andrew Pyle
male - Andrew Pyle (born 17 March 1955) is a British philosopher who is an expert on the history of philosophical atomism. Pyle is currently a Reader in...
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Hero Of Alexandria
female, deceased - Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a Hellenistic engineer and geometer who flourished in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Among his most famous inventions...
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Dharmakirti
male - Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He was one of the primary...
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Dan Jenkins
male (the city that reads at a 4th grade level, MD, United States) - Suddenly suspicious of cornfields.
