Greece 100 Drachmai 1967 XF-AU Democritus, RRR Greek banknote Pick # 196b Type A

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GREECE
:
100
Greek    DRACHMAI
,
{ Type : A }
Pick #
196b
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Types
A
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Signature  GALANIS    ||
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Types
B
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Signature  ZOLOTAS
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A
lmost
UNC
irculated
,
Circulated in year :
1967
Greek  Democracy
.
Greek   Banknote.
with  :
a) Democritus at left
b) Academy of Athens
Dimensions : 15.9 X 6.2 cm
Print
:
Bank  of  Greece, Athens
Watermark
:  Non  exist
Red-Brown
on multicolor underprint.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC.
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Condition
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The banknote my opinion characterized :
XF - AUnc
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price is for
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Democritus
(Greek:
Δημόκριτος
,
Dēmokritos
, "chosen of the people") (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) was an
ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHER
born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. He was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an
ATOMIC THEORY
for the universe.
His exact contributions are difficult to disentangle from those of his mentor Leucippus, as they are often mentioned together in texts. Their speculation on atoms, taken from Leucippus, bears a passing and partial resemblance to the nineteenth-century understanding of atomic structure that has led some to regard Democritus as more of a scientist than other Greek philosophers; however their ideas rested on very different bases. Largely ignored in ancient Athens, Democritus was nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher Aristotle. Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned. Many consider Democritus to be the "father of modern science".
Democritus' Theory on Atoms
His name is associated with the first exposition of the atomic theory of matter, according to which all matter is composed of single, indivisible atoms exactly alike qualitatively. This theory was a departure from that of the earlier Ionic philosophers, who held that matter is composed of particles differeing qualitatively from each other and disagreed only concerning the nature of those differences.
Democritus believed that the first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space, everything else is merely thought to exist. And that the atoms, the space within they move, and their motion within that space are eternal. The worlds are unlimited; they come into being and perish. Nothing can come into being from that which is not nor pass away into that which is not.
Further, the atoms are unlimited in size and number, and they are borne along in the wholie universe in a vortex, and thereby generate all composite things - fire, water, air, earth; for even these are conglomerate of given atoms.
He wrote extensively on the nature of the matter, but only fragments of his original work remain.
Democritus Background
Democritus was the son of Hegesistratus. He was a native of Abdera in Thrace and a pupil of Magians and Chaldaeans.
Democritus, regarded by some authorities as the greatest of the Greek physical philosophers, was born in Abdera in Thrace sometime between 470 and 460 BC, making him an older contemporary of Socrates.
When King Xerxes was was entertained by Hegesistratus the young Democritus learned from the men of Xerxes court such things as theology and astronomy.
He studied under the Greek philosopher Leucippus, whose system he further developed.
According to Demetrius in his book on
Men of the Same Name
and Atisthenes in his
Successions of Philosophers
he traveled into Egypt to learn geometry from the priests and also went into Persia to visit the Chaldaeans. Some say he even went as far as India and associated with the Gymnosophists.
Aristixenus in his
Historical Notes
affirms that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus that he could collect, but that Amyclas and Clinias the Pythagoreans prevented him, saying that there was no advantage in doing so, for already the books were widely circulated. And there is evidence for this in the fact that Plato, who mentions almost all the early philosophers, never once alludes to Democritus.
His biography is based largely on untrustworthy tradition. However, it seems certain that he inherited considerable wealth, which he spent traveling widely in the East in search of knowledge. He spent seven years in Egypt pursuing his interest in the mathematics and physics of the ancient schools. Of his subsequent life little is known. One tradition has it that he died impoverished at the age of about ninety. Others give his final age as over one hundred, and state that he became mentally unstable in his later years and was treated by the great Hippocrates.
Besides formulating the first atomic theory of matter, Democritus contributed to ethics, theology and psychology. Of particular interest are his views of perception, in which he held that sensations are the result of atoms emanating from the surface of objects. These, he believed, passed through pores directly into the body eventually to reach the mind. He also attempted to explain color vision and postulated four primaries, black, white, red and green, other colors being mixtures of these. The breadth of his knowledge and the impact of his thought on subsequent Greek science have many to regard him as the Aristotle of the fifth pre-Christian  century.
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