EMPEDOCLES
(Empedocles of Acragas | Empedocles of Akragas | Empedokles)
Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time.
Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time. While he was wrong about light being able to completely circle the earth, note that his view of the Earth is spherical. Most thinkers had rejected the flat earth even 400 years before Christ. It was the Church that solidified the flat earth concept.
Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time.
Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time.
The concept of evolution did not occur suddenly only with Charles Darwin. Over 2000 years before Greek Philosophers had speculated about the basic concept of evolution. Later Leibniz discussed man’s ascendancy from apes well before Darwin. See {589927}.
Empedocles (c.494 – c.434 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known 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. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.
