PHYSICAL SCIENCE

How the idea of the atom,

along with the idea of the
elements evolved.
• Describe the ideas of the Ancient
Greeks on the atom.

• Describe the contributions of the

alchemists to the science of chemistry.
• alchemy is based
on mystic view of
reality and facts.
• is based on
experiments,
observations and facts.
• 5th Century BCE
• Born in Abdera,
Thrace, Greece.
• 5th Century BCE
• Born in Abdera,
Thrace, Greece.
• ATOMOS or
ATOMON
• Atoms make up all matter and are
separated by empty space where
they move.
• Atoms are solid, homogeneous,
extremely small, and indivisible.
• Atoms are solid, homogeneous,
extremely small, and indivisible.

• They are made of

small, pointy atom
• Atoms are solid, homogeneous,
extremely small, and indivisible.

• made of large, round

atoms
• Atoms are solid, homogeneous,
extremely small, and indivisible.
• made of very fine,
small atoms that can
easily slip past each
other.
• The changes of groupings among
atoms are responsible for all
apparent changes in matter.
• There are different kinds of atoms in terms
of sizes, weights, and shapes that allow
them to interact, interlock, and rebound.
• there were an infinite
number of particles or
"seeds" (spermata)
that combined to
create everything in
the universe.
• Proposed that
everything consists of
four eternal and
naturally occurring
elements.
• Geometric solids,
also known as
Platonic Solids that
are divisible into
triangles.