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first to use the term "element (στοιχεῖον, stoicheîon)" in reference to air, fire, earth, and water. The ancient Greek word for element, stoicheion (from stoicheo...

which all substances derive from earth, water, air, and fire. The Empedoclean element of fire is perhaps the principal ancestor of later concepts such...

the only change that can occur is a change in the juxtaposition of element with element." This theory of the four elements became the standard dogma for...

gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. These correspond to the four Empedoclean elements of antiquity: earth, water, air, and fire, respectively. Terms...

characters such as the old woman, events such as the pilgrimage, and the four Empedoclean or "classical" elements, all providing contrast against Christian morals...

Natural motion depends on the element concerned: the aether naturally moves in a circle around the heavens, while the 4 Empedoclean elements move vertically...

Zurvanism. Materialist Zurvanism was influenced by the Aristotelian and Empedoclean view of matter, and took "some very queer forms". While Zoroaster's Ormuzd...

Alcmaeon and the empirical school of thought to respond to and critique the Empedoclean or humoral theory of medicine. The basic arguments of On Ancient Medicine...

especially in Physics book I. He adopted as reasonable suppositions the four Empedoclean elements, but added a fifth, aether. Nevertheless, these elements are...

according to Leroi, Aristotle was in any case discussing ontogeny, the Empedoclean coming into being of an individual from component parts, not phylogeny...