PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 9

Before i turn to Democritus the monistic unifier,let me cite another philosopher Anaxagoras-500-428 B.C. who could not disagree with Thales and then Democritus theories.Now,he held that nature is made of thousands of tiny indivisible particles not seen by the eye.He called them minuscule particles and was generally interested in the earth study and was the first philosopher we hear of in Athens where he migrated to at age 40 from Asia Minor.He was chased from the city after he was accused of atheism.After studying a meteorite,he concluded all heavenly bodies were made of the same materials as the earth.This gave him clue that life existed in them too.Democritus(460-370 B.C.)came from a little town of Abdera on northern Augean Coast.He was the philosopher that discovered atom and concluded that nature consisted of these smallest units and varieties of atom.He did not believe in any soul or spirit to interve in the natural process.Beginning with natural philosophers'tradition,the Greeks were tireless searchers.