Empedocles
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Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classica
Empedocles of Agrigentum
Empedocles, 17th-century engraving
The Death of Empedocles by Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), depicting the legendary alleged suicide of Empedocles jumping into Mount Etna in Sicily
Empedocles' theory four elements (fire, air, water and earth), woodcut from a 1472 edition of Lucretius' De rerum natura
Cosmogony
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Cosmogony, also spelled as cosmogeny, or cosmogenesis, is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe.
Empedocles
…was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively…
The Sumerian tablet containing parts of the Eridu Genesis
The Creation of the Four Elements as published by Holland in 1589 from Ovid's book: Metamorphoses
The representation of the Universe as rooted in Serer religion and Cosmogony