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Leucippus

500 BC - 500 BC

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Leucippus (; Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl. 5th century BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists between the atoms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leucippus has received more than 650,470 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Leucippus is the 91st most popular philosopher (down from 89th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Leucippus is most famous for being the first philosopher to propose the idea of atoms.

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  • 650k

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  • 74.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Leucippus ranks 91 out of 1,267. Before him are John of Damascus, Athanasius of Alexandria, Peter Abelard, Theophrastus, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Ibn Taymiyyah. After him are Walter Benjamin, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Jean Bodin, Boethius, and Jeremy Bentham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Leucippus ranks 3. Before him are Anaxagoras, and Myron. After him are Artaxerxes I of Persia, Xanthippe, Ezra, Artemisia I of Caria, Brennus, Ictinus, Cratylus, Cyrus the Younger, and Xerxes II of Persia. Among people deceased in 500 BC, Leucippus ranks 4. Before him are Esther, Myron, and Ānanda. After him are Polykleitos, Hippasus, Artemisia I of Caria, Diogenes of Apollonia, Rāhula, Obadiah, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, and Gorgo, Queen of Sparta.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Leucippus ranks 64 out of 1,347. Before him are Aspasia (-470), Hatice Sultan (1496), Abdul Hamid I (1725), Selim III (1761), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), and Mahmud I (1696). After him are Saint Blaise (300), Osman III (1699), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Şehzade Mehmed (1522), Mustafa III (1717), and Lucian (120).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Leucippus ranks 10. Before him are Anaximander (-610), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), and Ibn Taymiyyah (1263). After him are Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Chrysippus (-281), Proclus (412), Apollonius of Tyana (15), Bias of Priene (-600), and Arcesilaus (-315).

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