Empedocles of Akragas (c. 492-c. 432 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3603. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Lived in Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily), as the author of a physical-cosmological poem entitled On Nature, which developed the ideas of the Miletian philosophers like XENOPHANES who believed that the different forms of matter are manifestations of basic elements in different mixtures. Xenophanes suggested that everything was composed of two elements, water and earth, and Empedocles extended this...

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