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    6 months ago

    It was most of the Greeks. We credit Democritus with atomism even though the Greeks said it came from an earlier Phoenician, Mochus of Sidon. Even Democritus’s teacher doesn’t get credit.

    Democritus wrote it down in a way that survived.

    That’s it.