Chemical Engineering Science & Technology Timeline

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URL:

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3621/CHEHIST.HTM

Author:

Luis Klemas

Excerpt:

~440 BC: Democritus proposed the concept of atom to describe the ultimate indivisible, indestructible particles that composed the substance of all things. Lucretius (95-55 BC) wrote De rerum natura inspired in the ideas of Democritus and Epicurus.