Leucippus

"Leucippus" ... or that Kareem was an important child scientist.

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle Rex Parker 2010

Then, too, what made Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863 so shocking wasn't merely its portrayal of the overt male homosocial pleasure of sharing nude women sexually--that after all was established pictorially in Europe by artists like Poussin, in Rape of the Sabine Women, and Rubens, in Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Then, too, what made Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863 so shocking wasn't merely its portrayal of the overt male homosocial pleasure of sharing nude women sexually--that after all was established pictorially in Europe by artists like Poussin, in Rape of the Sabine Women, and Rubens, in Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

And does a mere unverified intuition on the part of Leucippus, Anaxagoras and Democritus that the world is made up of infinitesimally small particles really make them the forerunners of modern physics?

Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount Ranjit Bolt 2010

Endemism is relatively low except for avifauna, which includes the species buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) and chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus).

Lara-Falcón dry forests 2008

Leucippus, a century or so after Thales's death, came up with the idea of atoms, the smallest pieces of matter, which, roaming though empty space, hook up in various ways to form everything -- pretty much how we see it today, more than 2,000 years later.

What is a scientist? ewillett 2008

The objection, though formidable, was not new; Bayle in the Dictionnaire (entry “Leucippus,” remark G) had chided the Newtonians for identifying space with divine immensity in order to solve the ontological problem created by the positing of an infinite space, and had compared this solution to Malebranche's placement of “intelligible extension” in God, a move which, he claimed, Arnauld had shown to lead to the destruction of divine simplicity.

Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

Like Leucippus and Democritus, Epicurus felt it necessary to postulate the existence of physical atoms, but to avoid Aristotle's strictures he proposed that these should not be themselves conceptually indivisible, but should contain conceptually indivisible parts.

Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

It may be thou wilt find the daughters of Leucippus beside the brimming river or before the temple of Pallas, when at last with dance and revelry thou joinest in the merry midnight festival of

Helen 2008

It may be thou wilt find the daughters of Leucippus beside the brimming river or before the temple of Pallas, when at last with dance and revelry thou joinest in the merry midnight festival of

Helen 2008