21. Selinunte - Temple "B" (or Empedocles's) It is a hypothesis that this temple was dedicated to empedocles, the philosopher who expressed the theory of the transmigration of souls and http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

22. Talk:Empedocles - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Though it can be disputed, most of modern sources credit empedocles as the As a note of minor interest, empedocles theorized that the speed of light may http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Empedocles

Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$150,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Talk:Empedocles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Doesn't he deserve credit for formulating the principle of empiricism, too? April Though it can be disputed, most of modern sources credit Empedocles as the first to formulate the theory of four elements ( actually links here), which stayed the most popular (al)chemical theory for more than a thousand years. His fame as miracle worker and doctor was somewhat connected to the story of his successful action against the plague in Selinuntos, and an epidemic in Acragas (where he let a break be cut into the mountains, so that north winds could drive away unhealthy miasms from nearby marshes); he also established the Italian school of medicine, comparable to the schools of Kos and Knidos. As a note of minor interest, Empedocles theorized that the speed of light may be finite, though still too fast for us to notice the delay in its movement. He was exiled from Acragas after an aristocratic coup, and Diogenes Laertius relates two possible versions of his death: either he threw himself into Etna's crater (possibly to leave an impression of his ascent to heavens), or he died in Peloponnesos, as a refugee. (Diogenes Laertius's biography of Empedocles in Peitho's Web:

23. Empedocles empedocles emped'uklez Pronunciation Key (The Journal of the American Oriental Society) empedocles (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

24. Empedocles Of Akragas (ca. 492-ca. 432 BC) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Sci Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic empedocles and PythagoreanTradition. Oxford, England Oxford University Press, 1997. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Empedocles.html

Branch of Science Philosophers Nationality Greek Empedocles of Akragas (ca. 492-ca. 432 BC) Greek philosopher who was a subscriber to the Pythagorean school of natural philosophers, but without the mysticism of his contemporaries. He felt that we must use the data from our senses, even though they could not be completely trusted. He believed the Moon shone by reflected light. He postulated that all substances were made up of air, earth, fire, and water combined in different proportions. He is the first to have suggested the humoral theory, later adopted by the Hippocratics . He also proposed a crude theory of evolution. Hippocrates of Cos Pythagoras Additional biographies: Bonn Greek and Roman Science and Technology References Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

25. The Structure Of Empedocles' Fragment 17 A 2000 paper by Simon Trepanier. An intensive study of this, the longest and most illuminating of empedocles' fragments. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

26. Papyrus Of Empedocles Found Although empedocles is cited and quoted by other writers, empedocles iscredited with having founded modern medicine as well as prefiguring Darwin, http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/PapyrusFound.html

Rare Find of Pre-Socratic Writings Alain Martin of Brussels University has claimed that a piece of papyrus, held at the University of Strasbourg since 1904, contains 70 lines of text by Empedocles (c.495-435 BC), the Sicilian philosopher who developed the idea that everything is made up of four elements earth, air, fire and water. If true, it will be a major find, as very few manuscripts by pre-Socratic philosophers survive. The papyrus is of Egyptian origin and has been dated to the 1st century BC. Although Empedocles is cited and quoted by other writers, including Aristotle, only two poems survive from his original writings, making the discovery especially important. Empedocles is credited with having founded modern medicine as well as prefiguring Darwin, in a poem which talks of survival of the fittest among competing amalgams of limbs and body parts. His greatest fame, however, is in the legend that he leapt into the volcanic crater of Mount Etna to prove his divinity. He did not survive to tell the tale. News release of 9/27/97. From

27. Empedocles Of Acragas empedocles explains the nature of the universe through the interaction of two Unlike his predecessors, empedocles claims that there are four elements in http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Jesse/Jesse.html

Please note: These papers were prepared for the Greek Science course taught at Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane in the spring of 1995. The Perseus Project does not and has not edited these student papers. We assume no responsibility over the content of these papers: we present them as is as a part of the course, not as documents in the Perseus Digital Library . We do not have contact information for the authors. Please keep that in mind while reading these papers. Jesse Weissman 4/14/95 Empedocles of Acragas 495-435 B.C. Look at the comments on this paper. Although Empedocles developed radically new ideas about the nature of the universe, most of his work is an extension of Parmenidean and Pythagorean philosophy. How does one account for the kaleidoscopic nature of the world if we maintain Parmenides' belief in a permanent, singular, and eternal universe? In the process of answering this question, Empedocles introduces new physical, chemical, and biological insights that influence later philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.

28. Empedocles Held That The First Generations Of Animals And Plants empedocles held that the first generations of animals and plants were not completebut consisted of separate limbs not joined together; the second, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/Emp.evolution.html

"Empedocles held that the first generations of animals and plants were not complete but consisted of separate limbs not joined together; the second, arising from the joining of these limbs, were like creatures in dreams; the third was the generation of whole-natured forms; and the fourth arose no longer from the homogeneous substances such as earth or water, but by intermingling, in some cases as the result of the condensation of their nurishment, in others because feminine beauty excited the sexual urge; and the various species of animals were distinguished by the quality of the mixture in them..." Aetius V, 19, 5 in Kirk, et. al., p. 303

29. Empedocles Traditionally, empedocles writings were held to consist of two poems, Aristotle credits empedocles with being the first to distinguish clearly these http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A ... Z This document uses XHTML/Unicode to format the display. If you think special symbols are not displaying correctly, see our guide Displaying Special Characters last substantive content change MAR The Encyclopedia Now Needs Your Support Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Empedocles In antiquity, Empedocles (ca. 495-435 BCE) was characterized as active on the democratic side in the politics of his native city of Acragas in Sicily, and as a physician, as well as a philosopher and poet. His philosophical and scientific theories are mentioned and discussed in several dialogues of Plato, and they figure prominently in Aristotle's writings on physics and biology and, as a result, also in the later Greek commentaries on Aristotle's works. Diogenes Laertius devotes one of his Lives of Eminent Philosophers to him (VIII, 51-77). His writings have come down to us mostly in the form of fragments preserved as quotations in the works of these and other ancient authors. Extensive fragments, some of them not previously known, were recently found preserved on a papyrus roll from Egypt in the Strasbourg University library (see Martin and Primavesi 1999). The numbering of the fragments in this article follows that of the Diels-Kranz edition; the translations are from Kirk, Raven, and Schofield 1983. Traditionally, Empedocles' writings were held to consist of two poems, in hexameter verse, entitled

30. Archival Information For "Empedocles" Philosophical Dictionary empedoclesEquivocationHuman beings corrupted by eating animal flesh, empedocles, supposed, Recommended Reading empedocles The Extant Fragments , ed. by MR Wright (Hackett, http://plato.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia/archinfo.cgi?entry=empedocles

31. The Love And Strife Philosophy Of Empedocles About empedocles love and strife cosmology. Love and Strife cannot be understoodliterally; instead empedocles spoke of them as diametrically opposed http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/empedocles.html

32. BBC - History - Empedocles (c.490 BC - C.430 BC) The great magician empedocles was born at the beginning of the fifth century BC,and was the first to suggest that the world around us be made of elements. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/empedocles.shtml

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33. Empedocles HIPHOP. http://www.empedocles.tk/

34. Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Empedocles empedocles of Acragas was a poet, statesman, and man of medicine as well asphilosopher. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa010599e.htm

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35. Empedocles empedocles was a pluralist philosopher who saw change as the result of two forces,love and strife. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/empedocles/

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36. Empedocles, Greece, Ancient History Just like Pythagoras, empedocles said to remember previous lives, not only asvarious empedocles instituted democracy after owerthrowing the oligarchy. http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/empedocles.htm

Empedocles (c.490-430 BC) Philosopher, poet and statesman from Agrigentum on Sicily. His teachers were Pythagoras and Parmenides. Just like Pythagoras, Empedocles said to remember previous lives, not only as various humans, but also as a fish and a bush for example. Empedocles instituted democracy after owerthrowing the oligarchy. As a philosopher, he believed reality is cyclical and consists of the four elements earth, air, fire and water. These elements contract and separate according to the two opposing forces love and hate. He also formed a primitive thery on evolution, declating that humans and animals evolve from antecedent forms. Empedocles is said to have comitted suicide by jumbing into the volcano Etna. The volcano threw back one of his sandals, though. Webmistress V.E.K. Sandels Home Who is Who in ... -Antigonos Gonatas -Antigonos Monophtalmos -Antipater -Antisthenes -Anyte -Apelles ... -Zeuxis

37. Empédocles De Akragas (Agrigento) Translate this page Filosofía. Historia de la filosofía con textos, ejercicios y teorías de losautores más conocidos. De interés para estudiantes de filosofía de segundo de http://www.webdianoia.com/presocrat/empedocles.htm

en el Bachillerato Glosario Textos Ejercicios Selectividad ... Enlaces Empédocles de Akragas (495-435 a.c.) Se le atribuye la escritura de dos obras: una que contiene su interpretación de la naturaleza y a la que se le ha dado el nombre de "Sobre la naturaleza"; y otra, las "Purificaciones", que contiene un conjunto de instrucciones para el cuidado del hombre, en relación con sus creencias en la transmigración de las almas, en relación con sus tendencias religiosas relacionadas, al parecer, con el pitagorismo. "Empédocles admite cuatro elementos, añadiendo la tierra a los tres que quedan nombrados. Estos elementos subsisten siempre, y no se hacen o devienen; sólo que siendo, ya más, ya menos, se mezclan y se desunen, se agregan y se separan." (Aristóteles, Metafísica, 1 , 3 ) "Estos elementos nunca cesan su continuo cambio. En ocasiones se unen bajo la influencia del Amor y de este modo todo deviene lo Uno. Otras veces se disgregan por la fuerza hostil del Odio y tienen una vida inestable".

38. Empédocles De Akragas: Fragmentos. Translate this page Filosofía. Historia de la filosofía con textos, ejercicios y teorías de losautores más conocidos. De interés para estudiantes de filosofía de segundo de http://www.webdianoia.com/presocrat/textos/empedocles.htm

en el Bachillerato Glosario Textos Ejercicios Selectividad ... Enlaces Sobre la naturaleza 7.-Elementos eternos. Subir empedocles

39. Empedocles empedocles works with two sorts of motion Strife and Love . That differenceis apparent first of all as empedocles is willing to accord a kind of http://www.drury.edu/ess/history/ancient/Empedocles.html

from Agrigentum in Sicily in Magna Graecia. Not content to be a king - wanted to be a god. Some thought him a demigod- others a charlatan. He. travelled around Sicily and the Peloponnesus teaching and performing cures, venerated by many. In order to have a death worthy of a deity, he threw himself into Mt. Aetna - or, as another story would have it, was taken up by the gods, somewhat like Elijah. Cosmology - two suns, one authentic sun, fire, and another reflected sun, the one we see. (It had been discovered that the moon shines by reflected light - he drew the analogy Night is produced by the interposition of the earth between the sun and fire (?). Discovered the true cause of eclipses The planets and stars are authentic, not reflected fire: the stars are fixed, the planets free-moving. Light is something which travels very quickly. Biological notions - the first things were trees (plants have sex) Heat is principally male Human beings are produced by a chance aggregation of separate components and only those properly organized survive (compare this antecedent of 19th ct. "natural selection" with

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