anu

Japanese: anu
anu

…After all, the history of modern science in Europe, especially physics, can be said to have been a series of attempts to carry out the logic of atomic theory. [Yoichiro Murakami]
[Ancient India]
Atomic theory has existed in India since ancient times, but it is thought to have begun in Jainism, which considered things to exist in the form of minute and compound bodies, the former being anu, or atom, which occupies a point in space and has the power of movement and combination to gradually form a compound body. After that, it was widely adopted in the general world of thought outside of orthodox Brahminism (the school of thought was mainly the Mimamsa school) as the basis for defining substance.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "anu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…結局のところ,ヨーロッパの近代科学,とりわけ物理学の歴史は,原子論の論理をいかに貫徹させるか,という試みの積重ねであったということができよう。【村上 陽一郎】
【古代インド】
 原子論はインドでも古くからあったが,その初めと考えられるのはジャイナ教のそれで,事物のあり方に微小体・複合体としてのあり方を考え,前者がアヌanuすなわち原子で,空間の一点を占め運動と結合との力があってしだいに複合物を形成するとした。その後は正統婆羅門(バラモン)(学派としてはおもにミーマーンサー学派)以外の一般思想界で実体規定の基調をなすものとしてひろくおこなわれた。…

※「anu」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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