Editing Kinetic theory of gases (section)

==== Antiquity ====
In about 50 [[before common era|BCE]], the Roman philosopher [[Lucretius]] proposed that apparently static macroscopic bodies were composed on a small scale of rapidly moving atoms all bouncing off each other.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maxwell|first1=J. C.|year=1867|title=On the Dynamical Theory of Gases|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|volume=157|pages=49–88|doi=10.1098/rstl.1867.0004|s2cid=96568430}}</ref> This [[Epicureanism|Epicurean]] atomistic point of view was rarely considered in the subsequent centuries, when [[Aristotle]]an ideas were dominant.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}