3/28/2016
Empedocles - 440BC
- Mixture of philosophe, science, charlatan - similar to Pythagoras
- worked miracles
- died by leaping into crater to prove he is God
- Man of science
* Air a separate substance
* Centrifugal force
* Sex in plants and evolution
* Astronomy, moon reflection of sun
* founder of italian schhool of medicine
- Cosmology - 4 elements - air, water, earth and time
* also love and stife
- Religion - influence of Orphism
- Nature regulated by chance and necessity rather than purpose.
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