Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory

  • Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory

    • Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory of energy

    Development of the atomic theory.

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    Born
    about 492 BC
    Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
    Died
    about 432 BC
    Peloponnese, Greece
    Summary
    Empedocles was a Greek philosopher who is best known for his belief that all matter was composed of four elements: fire, air, water, and earth.

    Some have considered him the inventor of rhetoric and the founder of the science of medicine in Italy.

    Biography

    Empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily. The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name for the town was Agrigentum.

    Later the town was called Girgenti and more recently it became known by its present name of Agrigento.

    Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory

  • Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory
  • Empedocles contribution to the atomic theory of energy
  • Development of the atomic theory
  • Empedocles evolution
  • Empedocles contribution to chemistry

    • It was one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world up to the time it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406 BC. It was, in Empedocles time, a rich city containing the finest Greek culture. Some of the Pythagoreans had come there after being attacked in their centre at Croton.



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