Empedocles - Research Article from Science and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 1 page of information about Empedocles.
Encyclopedia Article

Empedocles - Research Article from Science and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 1 page of information about Empedocles.
This section contains 104 words
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492?-432 B.C.

Greek philosopher who gained fame as a physician, statesman, theologian, mystic, and democratic reformer. Only fragments of his long poem, On Nature, have survived. Galen called Empedocles the founder of the Italian school of medicine. Empedocles taught that the four ultimate elements—fire, air, water, and earth—were associated with the hot and the cold, the moist and the dry. According to Empedocles, we breathe through all the pores of the body, and respiration is closely connected with the motion of the blood. He is regarded as one of the first to suggest employing experimentation in physiology and medicine.

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