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Is matter infinitely divisible or there are ultimate indivisible elements – atoms? Philosophers and scientists after them were of different opinions about this, and no definite proof appeared until the turn of the 20th century.
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Pismen, L. (2018). From Continuum to Atoms. In: The Swings of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99777-3_4
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