https://doi.org/10.7834/phoenix.74.1-2.0111 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7834/phoenix.74.1-2.0111 Copy URL This article takes a fresh look at the relationship ...
Long before there was a periodic table of the elements, there was no need for a table — just four chairs. From ancient through medieval into early modern times, natural philosophers could count the ...
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This ancient verse hardly seems respectful for one of the greatest of the ancient Greek philosophers. But by his own choice, that is how the old boy left this life, and not for very good reasons ...
The pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (d. c. 434 BCE) hailed from Acragas, now Agrigento, in Italy. He had a reputation as a mystic and miracle worker and claimed to be able to cure old age and ...