This page details the evolution of atomic theory from ancient Greece to modern science, contrasting Democritus's indivisible atoms with Aristotle's divisible matter. It discusses fundamental laws of c...This page details the evolution of atomic theory from ancient Greece to modern science, contrasting Democritus's indivisible atoms with Aristotle's divisible matter. It discusses fundamental laws of chemistry, like conservation of mass, and pivotal experiments such as Rutherford's gold foil and J.J. Thomson's cathode ray tube that reveal atomic structure.