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450 BCE
Democritus Discovered and Explained the 4 Elements
Aristotle and Democritus lived more than 2000 years ago in Greece. Aristotle believed in 4 elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Democritus believed that matter was made of small particles he named “atoms”. Aristotle and Democritus used observation and inference to explain the existence of everything.
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