There are at least three vaguely atomistic principles that have come up in the literature, two explicitly and one implicitly. First, standard atomism is the claim that everything is composed of atoms, ...

The atomism theory is antithetical to theories of Morgan and the Marxists, especially to those concerning the evolution of property forms. Hence, conflicting theories on Algonkian organization relate ...

The doctrine of the panchabhootas was propounded in India to understand the apparently complex and diverse world during the Upanishadic period, as described in the previous article in the series (Dec ...

British scientist John Dalton proved the existence of atom in laboratory in 1803. But nearly 2,500 years before it, Indian philosopher Maharsi Kanada had propounded the atomic theory. Therefore, ...

IT is the epic of the successive dynasties of the atom that Mr. Gregory sets himself to recount in his very interesting book. From Democritus, who was the first to discuss atoms, down to the present ...

The concept of extraterrestrial life has ancient roots, tracing back to the atomism of Democritus and Epicurus in ancient Greece, who argued that the universe's composition implied the possibility of ...

THE explanatory title of this book, namely, “A Study in the Natural Philosophy of Newton's Time,” gives a good indication of the scope and nature of the contents. It is certainly desirable in these ...

Lagos — THE narrative of the African anti-colonial resistance movement that first "imagined"Africa as an organic nationalist enterprise has been fudged over time, so much indeed, that the principles, ...