1) Philosopher 2) volcano in Italy
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[volcano] Empedocles is a large underwater volcano located 40 km off the southern coast of Sicily named after the Greek philosopher Empedocles who believed that everything on Earth was made up of the four elements. According to Giovanni Lanzafame, of Italy`s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the volcanic structure is around ...
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Greek philosopher, statesman, poet, religious teacher, and physiologist.[13 related articles]
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(c. 490–430 BC) Sicilian Pythagorean philosopher who developed the notion that there were four fundamental elements in matter – earth, air, fore, and water. In medicine he taught that blood ebbed and flowed from the heart and that health consisted in a balance of the...
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(c. 493-433 BC) Greek philosopher and scientist who proposed that the universe is composed of four elements - fire, air, earth, and water - which through the action of love and discord are eternally...
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n] - Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
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noun Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
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Of Agrigentum, about 490-430 B.C.; attempted to reconcile the teaching of the permanence of Being of the Eleatics with the experience of change and motion as emphasized by Heraclitus. He taught the doctrine of the four 'elements', earth, water, air and fire, out of the mixture of which all individual things came to be; love and hate being the caus....
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Greek philosopher and scientist who proposed that the universe is composed of four elements – fire, air, earth, and water – which through the action of love and discord are eternally constructed, destroyed, and constructed anew. He lived in Acragas (Agrigentum), Sicily, and according to tradition, he committed suicide by throwing himself ...
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c490–c430 b.c., Greek philosopher and statesman.
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