LEUCIPPUS

, a celebrated Greek philosopher and mathematician, who flourished about the 428th year before Christ. He was the first author of the famous system of atoms and vacuums, and of the hypothesis of storms; since attributed to the moderns.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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LEMMA
LEMNISCATE
LENS
LEO
LEPUS
* LEUCIPPUS
LEVEL
LEVELLING
LEVER
LEVITY
LEUWENHOEK (Antony)