41. Speed Of Light empedocles of Acragas (492432 BC). empedocles believed that light travelledwith a finite velocity, not through any experimental evidence, of course, http://njsas.org/projects/speed_of_light/empedocles/

Empedocles of Acragas (492-432 BC) Empedocles believed that light travelled with a finite velocity, not through any experimental evidence, of course, but simply through reasoning. Aristotle writes in De sensu : Empedocles says that the light from the Sun arrives first in the intervening space before it comes to the eye, or reaches the Earth. This might plausibly seem to be the case. For whatever is moved through space, is moved from one place to another; hence, there must be a corresponding interval of time also in which it is moved from the one place to the other. But any given time is divisible into parts; so that we should assume a time when the sun's ray was not as yet seen, but was still travelling in the middle space. (source: st-andrews.ac.uk Aristotle himself found it difficult to conceive a speed fast enough to account for the apparent instantaneous propagation of light across the horizon. Aristotle (384-322 BC) The thought of Aristotle (384-322 BC) dominated western science for nearly two millenia. So powerful is his cosmology that it compels him to declare that `` light is due to the presence of something, but it is not a movement'' [6]. No movement, no speed. And if that were not enough, the argument for finite speed is easily dismissed: Empedocles (and with him all others who used the same forms of expression) was wrong in speaking of light as `travelling' or being at a given moment between the earth and its envelope, its movement being unobservable to us; that view is contrary both to the clear evidence of argument and to the observed facts; if the distance traversed were short, the movement might have been unobservable, but where the distance is from extreme East to extreme West, the strain upon our powers of belief is too great.

42. Philosophy - Presocratics: Empedocles Besides medical skill empedocles possessed poetical talents. It must benoticed, however, that empedocles discovered that what we call atmospheric air http://www.archaeonia.com/philosophy/presocratics/empedocles.htm

EMPEDOCLES (about 459 B.C.) E mpedocles was a citizen of Agrigentum in Sicily. His date is roughly fixed for us by the well-attested fact that he went to Thourioi shortly after its foundation in 444/3 B.C . He was, therefore, contemporary with the meridian splendor of the Periclean age at Athens , and he must have met Herodotus and Protagoras at Thourioi. He was distinguished not only as a philosopher, but also for his knowledge of natural history and medicine , and as a poet and statesman. After the death of his father Meto , who was a wealthy citizen of Agrigentum, he acquired great weight among his fellow-citizens by espousing the popular party and favoring democratic measures. His consequence in the State became at length so great that he ventured to assume several of the distinctions of royalty, particularly a purple robe, a golden girdle, a Delphic crown, and a train of attendants. He combined scientific study with a mystical religion of the Orphic type , but he differed from Pythagoras in the direction his scientific inquires took, focusing on medicine, rather than mathematics . That accounts for the physiological interest that arks his speculations. The skill which he possessed in medicine and natural philosophy allowed him to perform many wonders, which he passed upon the multitude for miracles. He pretended to drive away noxious winds from his country and thereby put a stop to epidemic diseases. He is said to have checked, by the power of

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44. Empedocles: Definition And Much More From Answers.com Em·ped·o·cles ( emped ?-klez ) , Fifth century BC Greek philosopher whobelieved that all matter is composed of earth, air, fire and water, http://www.answers.com/topic/empedocles

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Medical Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Empedocles Dictionary Em·ped·o·cles ĕm-pĕd ə-klēz , Fifth century B.C. Greek philosopher who believed that all matter is composed of earth, air, fire and water, and that all change is caused by attraction and repulsion. Encyclopedia Empedocles ĕmpĕd əklēz ) , c.495–c.435 B.C. , Greek philosopher, b. Acragas (present Agrigento), Sicily. Leader of the democratic faction in his native city, he was offered the crown, which he refused. A turn in political fortunes drove him and his followers into exile. Empedocles taught that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible roots, material particles identified as fire, water, earth, and air. He declared the atmosphere to be a corporeal substance, not a mere void; and in the absence of the void or empty space he explained motion as the interpenetration of particles, under the alternating action of two forces, harmony and discord. Believing that motion, or change of place, is the only sort of change possible, he explained all apparent changes in quality or quantity as changes of position of the basic particles underlying the observable object. He was thereby the first to state a principle that is now central to physics. Bibliography See studies by C. E. Millerd (1980) and M. R. Wright (1981).

45. Peter Kingsley empedocles was born just a few years after Parmenides. Between them, Parmenidesand empedocles laid the most basic foundations for the world and culture http://www.peterkingsley.org/ParmenidesEmpedocles.html

Parmenides and Empedocles As for the "logic" that he introduced to the western world, this was not some dry intellectual exercise. It was nothing less than a gift from the gods which when understood right, and applied in our daily life, has the mysterious power of taking us back to the gods. Empedocles was born just a few years after Parmenides. He lived on the island of Sicily. He, too, is famous for the fundamental role he played in the development of the western world. Just like Parmenides he wrote his teachings in the form of poetry; and this poetry of his exerted a crucial role in creating what were soon to become known as the separate fields of philosophy, rhetoric, medicine, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology and psychology. But Empedocles was far more than the cosmologist or scientist he is now made out to be. He was also a sorcerer whose words had a magic power that, for over two thousand years, has bewitched and confused even the brightest of minds. Like Parmenides he was a healer who specialized in ecstasy and in the ability to access other states of consciousness at will. He openly announced that he had realized his immortality; had discovered his own divinity. And through his poetry he recorded techniques, which are as powerful now as they ever have been, for leading people to the direct experience of their own divine nature. As for his amazingly intricate teachings about the details of the world around us: these were never meant just to stimulate people's curiosity and become an object of interest in themselves. On the contrary, their real purpose was to free us from the illusions that bind us and bring us to an immediate awareness of our own immortal soul.

46. Empedocles - Wikipedia empedocles bijdrage aan de filosofie bestond niet zozeer uit het afleiden empedocles ontdekte dat lucht een afzonderlijke substantie was als je een http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles

Wikimedia heeft uw hulp nodig om US $200.000 in te zamelen. Zie onze donatiepagina voor de details van deze actie. Meer dan $140.000 (bijna €115.000) is reeds ontvangen sinds 19 augustus. Zeer bedankt voor uw steun! Empedocles Empedocles Empedocles (Acragas ( Agrigento ) op Sicili« ca. 492 v.Chr. - ca. 432 v.Chr. ) was een Grieks filosoof. Hij was een tijdgenoot van Zeno , die een leerling was van Parmenides . Hij was staatsman, dichter, godsdienstleraar, redenaar, profeet, arts, wonderdoener en wijsgeer. Empedocles wordt met Heraclitus Leucippus Democritus en Anaxagoras gerekend tot de Griekse natuurfilosofen Tamelijk complete delen van zijn leerdichten zijn bewaard gebleven. Empedocles' bijdrage aan de filosofie bestond niet zozeer uit het afleiden van een nieuwe theorie, alswel uit het samenvoegen van elementen uit vroegere opvattingen. Met name combineerde hij elementen uit de filosofie«n van Heraclitus en de Eleaten Hij stond onder sterk invloed van het Pytagorisme : zo geloofde hij in zielsverhuizing, vegetarisme en vond hij zichzelf een god. Inhoud Geneeskunde Natuurkunde Evolutieleer De vier elementen ... bewerk Geneeskunde Empedocles had een goede reputatie als genezer. Hij zou met ezelshuiden een barri¨re gemaakt hebben om de sterke winden die de gewassen vernielden tegen te houden en zo ook de verspreiding van ziektes tegen te gaan. Ook had hij een moeras drooggelegd om ziekten te verminderen. Er werd aan hem zelfs goddelijke kracht toegeschreven: zo zou hij op miraculeuze een vrouw uit de dood hebben opgewekt (kan ook kennis van coma zijn).

47. Empedocles empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily. It was, inempedocles time, a rich city containing the finest Greek culture. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/E/Empedocles/1.h

Empedocles (c. 490-430 BC) Empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily. The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name for the town was Agrigentum. Later the town was called Girgenti and more recently it became known by its present name of Agrigento. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world up to the time it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406 BC. It was, in Empedocles time, a rich city containing the finest Greek culture. Some of the Pythagoreans had come there after being attacked in their centre at Croton. Empedocles was born into a rich aristocratic family. He travelled throughout the Greek world participating fully in the extraordinary desire for learning and understanding which gripped that part of the world. He is described as follows by Sarton [5]:- He was not only a philosopher but a poet, a seer, a physicist, a social reformer, a man of so much enthusiasm that he would easily be considered a charlatan by some people, or become a legendary hero in the eyes of others. There are many legends regarding Empedocles life. He wrote poetry and 450 lines of such had been preserved by later writers such as Simplicius

48. From "Empedocles On Etna" By Matthew Arnold. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ed. 1895. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.From “empedocles on Etna”. Matthew Arnold (1822–88) http://www.bartleby.com/246/421.html

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49. 128. From ‘Empedocles On Aetna’ By Matthew Arnold. Nicholson & Lee, Eds. 1917. 128. From ‘empedocles on Aetna’ by Matthew Arnold. Nicholson Lee, eds. 1917.The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. http://www.bartleby.com/236/128.html

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50. Empedocles Of Acragas empedocles is mentioned twice in Plato s dialogues once in the Meno (Meno, 76c)and once in the Theætetus (Theætetus, http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/char/empedocl.htm

Bernard SUZANNE Last updated December 5, 1998 Plato and his dialogues : Home Biography Works History of interpretation ... New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version . Tools : Index of persons and locations Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World . Site information : About the author This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues , dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations Empedocles is mentioned twice in Plato's dialogues : once in the Meno Meno, 76c ) and once in the . . . . WORK IN PROGRESS - PLEASE BE PATIENT . . . To Perseus general lookup encyclopedia mentions in ancient authors Plato and his dialogues : Home Biography Works History of interpretation ... New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version . Tools : Index of persons and locations Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World . Site information : About the author First published January 4, 1998 - Last updated December 5, 1998

51. AllRefer.com - Empedocles (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia AllRefer.com reference and encyclopedia resource provides complete informationon empedocles, Philosophy, Biographies. Includes related research links. http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/E/Empedocl.html

AllRefer Channels :: Health Yellow Pages Reference Weather August 31, 2005 Medicine People Places History ... Maps Web AllRefer.com You are here : AllRefer.com Reference Encyclopedia Philosophy, Biographies ... Empedocles By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z E Empedocles, Philosophy, Biographies Related Category: Philosophy, Biographies Empedocles u kl E z] Pronunciation Key B.C. , Greek philosopher, b. Acragas (present Agrigento), Sicily. Leader of the democratic faction in his native city, he was offered the crown, which he refused. A turn in political fortunes drove him and his followers into exile. Empedocles taught that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible roots, material particles identified as fire, water, earth, and air. He declared the atmosphere to be a corporeal substance, not a mere void; and in the absence of the void or empty space he explained motion as the interpenetration of particles, under the alternating action of two forces, harmony and discord. Believing that motion, or change of place, is the only sort of change possible, he explained all apparent changes in quality or quantity as changes of position of the basic particles underlying the observable object. He was thereby the first to state a principle that is now central to physics. See studies by C. E. Millerd (1980) and M. R. Wright (1981).

52. Fragments Of Empedocles old, antique, first edition, dust jacket, dust wrapper, first printing, leather,signed. http://home.earthlink.net/~netsifters/frag.html

Home Antique Features ABE ... Email Books By Netsifters Fragments of Empedocles By William Ellery Leonard 8vo (8 1/2 ins.) Tan paper boards with a maroon spine. The title on the spine is gilded; printed in blue ink on the front cover. Published by The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago,1908. The preface is dated Madison, Wisconsin, May 14, 1907. There are 92 pages including a bibliography and notes. From the introduction: "Of the many works, imputed to (the philospoher and poet) Empedocles by antiquity, presumably only two are genuine, the poems 'On Nature' and the 'Purifications'; and of these we possess but the fragments preseved in the citations oif philosopher and doxographer from Aristotle to Simplicius, which, though a small part of the whole, are much more numerous and comprehensive than those of either Xenophanes or Parmenides. It is impossible to determine when the poems were lost: they were read doubtless by Lucretius and Cicero, possibly as late as the sixth century by Simplicius, who at least quotes from the 'On Nature' at length." From the 'Purifications': For since, O Muse undying, thou couldst deign

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54. Empedocles About the life and studies of empedocles. empedocles was born in Acragas onthe south coast of Sicily. The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name http://www.philosophyprofessor.com/philosophers/empedocles.php

@import url(http://www.philosophyprofessor.com/side/cssphp.css); HOME Philosophies Philosophers Library ... Zeno of Elea web here SITE MAP Empedocles (490-430 BC) Empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily. The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name for the town was Agrigentum. Later the town was called Girgenti and more recently it became known by its present name of Agrigento. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world up to the time it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406 BC. It was, in Empedocles time, a rich city containing the finest Greek culture. Some of the Pythagoreans had come there after being attacked in their centre at Croton. Empedocles was born into a rich aristocratic family. He travelled throughout the Greek world participating fully in the extraordinary desire for learning and understanding which gripped that part of the world. Empedocles was a philosopher and poet: one of the most important of the philosophers working before Socrates (the Presocratics), and a poet of outstanding ability and of great influence upon later poets such as Lucretius.

55. Empedocles: Love And Strife By John Sutton empedocles LOVE AND STRIFE A QUEST. John Sutton Sydney, January 1999. NEW!!!empedocles love and strife is being revived in the 2004 http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Empedocles.html

John Sutton back to my home page EMPEDOCLES: LOVE AND STRIFE A QUEST John Sutton Sydney, January 1999 NEW!!! Empedocles: love and strife is being revived in the 2004 Olympics of the Mind series at the Steki Taverna Newtown. Bookings with Steki on 9516-2191. Through this page you'll find information about this play, along with five short extracts. Love and Strife was originally written for the 1998-99 season of Philosophy Nights at the Steki Taverna, a Greek restaurant in Newtown, Sydney, at which audiences eat, drink, and heckle while watching a loose group of performers and philosophers present reconstructions, dialogues, and other dramatic variations on the history of western and eastern philosophy. Love and Strife has since been performed in Armidale, Medlow Bath, and at the Friend in Hand pub in Glebe. It's a mixed-up medley on the life and thought of the wild shamanic pre-Socratic, Empedocles of Acragas. With Diogenes Laertius, the ancient gossip, as M.C., the audience are taught about immortality, blending, and beans by the strangely reincarnated and unnecessarily grumpy mystagogue. Holderlin, Matthew Arnold, and Freud turn up to share their ecstatic encounters with Empedocles' work; Aristotle and some equally picky modern critics get what they deserve; and Nietzsche, planning a tragic drama about Empedocles' death in Etna, duets on the cosmic cycle. Many thanks to Ed Spence for his work on the Philosophy Nights series, and especially to the various cast members: Chris Burgess, Fiona Jenkins, Doris McIlwain, Dan Smith, and Caroline West. I will put up information and links when I get a chance on the other background material to the text (which improvises on and around fragments and texts written by and about Empedocles), and on the recent discovery of a new Empedocles papyrus fragment.

56. Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - EMPEDOCLES Theosophy Library Online is an ever growing collection of Theosophical Literature,including the full text of hundreds of Theosophy articles by Raghavan N. http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/Empedocles.htm

EMPEDOCLES There is an oracle of Necessity, ancient decree of the gods, Eternal, sealed with solemn oaths, That whenever one of the daimones, allotted long life, Fouls his limbs by unwitting involvement in murder, Or in strife falsely swears an oath, He is exiled to wander for thirty thousand seasons Far from the blessed gods, being born in myriads of mortal forms, on the painful paths of life. The mighty ether chases him into the seas. The sea spews him forth upon the threshold of earth, And earth casts him into the sun's shining splendour. The sun hurls him into the whirling ether's vortex. Thus one receives him from the other, and all loathe him. I, too, am one of these now, fugitive from the gods And wanderer, for I yielded to raging Strife's enticement. EMPEDOCLES dike, justice or karma, showing the power of dialogue to touch the vital core of ethics. Even as a youth, Empedocles seized the opportunity of his fortunate birth to study philosophy, the arts and natural science. Politics came naturally to him. Unlike any of his older contemporaries, he sensed the significance of the attack of Xerxes upon Greece, and in 480 B.C. composed an epic poem on the subject. Neanthes claimed that Empedocles wrote seven tragedies in his youth, but none of these survive. He grasped the intent of the Milesian philosophers to establish the operating principles of nature, and he was so deeply impressed by the logical arguments of Parmenides that he composed his own philosophical poems in dactylic hexameters, the metre of the

57. Empedocles His grandfather empedocles was victorious in the Olympian chariot race in empedocles, according to one story, was one midnight, after a feast held in http://www.nndb.com/people/832/000087571/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Empedocles Born: c. 490 BC Birthplace: Acragas, Sicily, Italy Died: 430 BC Location of death: Peloponnese, Greece Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Philosopher Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Supposed inventor of Rhetoric Of his poem on nature there are left about 400 lines in unequal fragments out of the original 5000; of the hymns of purification less than 100 verses remain; of the other works, improbably assigned to him, nothing is known. His grand but obscure hexameters, after the example of Parmenides , delighted Lucretius Aristotle Giuseppe Mazzini as the democrat of antiquity par excellence As his history is uncertain, so his doctrines are hard to put together. He does not belong to any one definite school. While, on one hand, he combines much that had been suggested by Parmenides, Pythagoras and the Ionic schools, he has germs of truth that Plato As man, animal and plant are composed of the same elements in different proportions, there is an identity of nature in them all. They all have sense and understanding; in man, however, and especially in the blood at his heart, mind has its peculiar seat. But mind is always dependent upon the body, and varies with its changing constitution. Hence the precepts of morality are with Empedocles largely dietetic.

58. Empedocles, Anaxagoras, And The Atomists An overview of the views of the ancient Greeks on cosmology and early atomic theory. http://www.mindground.net/atomists.html

Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the Atomists             Empedocles, the oldest of the four, was rumored to be a Pythagorean (151).  But if the Pythagoreans were by definition a mystery religion, then it must be deduced that Empedocles deviated from this tradition.  Therefore, the ideas that he presented may be acknowledged to have been influenced by the Pythagoreans but not necessarily confined to them. This influence helped form a duality in Empedocles’ mind between a separate and pristine godlike state and the condition of his known environment, described in his text Purifications as a “meadow of Doom” (153) in which immortal souls are “driven this way and that, vainly supposing that [they have] discovered the whole” (156).  These exiled spirits are trapped in eternal cycles perpetuated by what Empedocles viewed as impure acts, such as bloodletting (154), a notion derived straight from Pythagoras.             Another element in Empedocles’ ideas of a Pythagorean origin is the importance that they both placed on numbers.  Empedocles claimed that the cosmos was composed of four elements, namely earth, air, fire, and water, and two forces, being mingling and separation, named by him as “Love” and “Strife” (158).  Upon these building blocks and the forces that move them, all that exists is built by a series of variations of ratios.  What separates one substance from the next is simply a basic shift in the portions of elements and the amount of Love or Strife involved.

59. Empedocles Though, having much in common with Heraclitus ontology, empedocles is Gorgias of Leontini was his student, and it is probably from empedocles that http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Bios/Empedocles.html

Empedocles Agrigentum also known as Acragas, a Greek colony in Sicily. He maintained that all matter is made up of four classical elements (which he called roots): water, earth, air and fire. In addition to these, he postulated something called Love (philia) to explain the attraction of different forms of matter, and of something called Strife (neikos) to account for their separation. This theory was endorsed and developed by Aristotle and remained in place until the Renaissance. Though, having much in common with Heraclitus ontology, Empedocles is considered to be more tolerant and soft in his outlook. That fact served as a matter of mentioning him by Plato in famous "Sophist" dialogue as a "gentle muse": Then there are Ionian, and in more recent times Sicilian muses, who have arrived at the conclusion that to unite the two principles is safer, and to say that being is one and many, and that these are held together by enmity and friendship, ever parting, ever meeting, as the-severer Muses assert, while the gentler ones do not insist on the perpetual strife and peace, but admit a relaxation and alternation of them; peace and unity sometimes prevailing under the sway of Aphrodite, and then again plurality and war, by reason of a principle of strife. (Plato, Soph.). Empedocles was also a mystic and a poet, and some consider him the inventor of the study of rhetoric.

60. Empedocles On Etna - Matthew Arnold, Book, Etext empedocles on Etna. and Other Poems empedocles on Etna The River Excuse Indifference Too Late On the Rhine Longing The Lake Parting http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/A/ArnoldMatthew/verse/Empedocles

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