"(c. 440 B.C.) may possibly have been a pupil of Zeno's. Very little is known of his life and we are not at all certain of the time in which he lived, but Diogenes Laertius (2nd century) speaks of him as a teacher of Democritus (c. 400 B.C.). He and Democritus are generally considered as the founders of that atomistic school, which taught that magnitudes are composed of individual elements in finite numbers. It was this philosophy that led Aristotle (c. 430 B.C.) to write a book in indivisible lines."

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