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100	1		_aShipley, Maynard, _d1872-1934
245	1	4	_aThe origin and development of the atomic theory
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLittle blue books series no. 608
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-02
505	0		_aThe Pythagorean atomists -- The materialistic atomists: Leucippus and Democritus -- The Eleatic view -- Epicurus and Lucretius -- Post-classical atomism.
508			_aTim Miller, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aThe origin and development of the atomic theory by Maynard Shipley is a scientific publication and historical account written in the early 20th century. The book concisely traces how ideas about atoms arose, changed, and matured—from ancient philosophical speculations to modern scientific theories—showing how the concept of matter’s discreteness evolved into the foundation of chemistry and physics. Shipley begins with the Pythagoreans, Philolaus, and related ideas from India, highlighting number, geometry, and the five regular solids as early ways to picture particles. He then presents Leucippus and Democritus: atoms and void, causal necessity, subjective sense qualities, and the role of shape, size, and arrangement; along the way he contrasts them with the Eleatics’ denial of motion and Anaxagoras’ “seeds.” The narrative turns to Epicurus and Lucretius, covering equal falling speeds in the void, the swerve debate, many worlds, and a polemic against superstition and divine design. Democritus’ “soul atoms,” effluences, and theories of color and taste are explained alongside Aristotle’s critiques. The closing chapter follows post-classical atomism through Descartes and Gassendi to Dalton’s laws of definite and multiple proportions, clarifying early errors about formulas, and connects these to modern insights—electrons, nuclei, isotopes, and atomic number—showing how an ancient idea became the quantitative science of matter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924
653			_aAtomic theory
700	1		_aHaldeman-Julius, E. _q(Emanuel), _d1888-1951
830		0	_aLittle blue books series no. 608
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/origindevelopmen0000ehal/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76795
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