The Address of the President - Atomicity in Physical Nature

Authors

LeRoy D. Weld, Coe CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Atomicity in Physical Nature-From the earliest times men have been curious about the makeup of material things and the mechanism of visible processes. When Empedocles reasoned that all change is merely a rearrangement of permanent, unchangeable parts - an idea which the YAtomists and Anaxagoras later elaborated in greater detail - he merely gave expression to what seems to be an intuitive conviction about Nature in general. Anaxagoras recognized the existence of atoms and the fact that there are different kinds of atoms; and he furthermore introduced the grotesque idea of atoms endowed with intelligence, by way of accounting for the order existing in Nature.

Publication Date

1928

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

35

Issue

1

First Page

45

Last Page

53

Copyright

©1928 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Weld, LeRoy D. (1928) "The Address of the President - Atomicity in Physical Nature," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 35(1), 45-53.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol35/iss1/6