Wood engraving of a traveller kneeling at the edge of the sky and pushing his head through it to see the machinery beyond. — A traveller looks through the edge of the sky at the workings behind it.
Image: Unknown artist, in Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphère (Paris, 1888) · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of the Atom

How an idea about the smallest things took 2,400 years to prove

c. 600 BCE – 1990

From a question asked on the Aegean coast to a photograph of single atoms: the people, the arguments and the experiments that turned a guess into a fact.

A Knaph story

The Story of the Atom

How an idea about the smallest things took 2,400 years to prove

c. 600 BCE – 1990

From a question asked on the Aegean coast to a photograph of single atoms: the people, the arguments and the experiments that turned a guess into a fact.