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Vestígios da cosmologia de Empédocles em fontes latinas dos séculos XII-XIII [PDF]
O propósito deste artigo é analisar a expressão que assegura a presença de partes da cosmologia de Empédocles no Ocidente latino nos séculos XII-XIII, qual seja, creatio mundi, esta que é a tradução do termo κοσμοποιία.
Santos, Evaniel Brás dos
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Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria
Anne-Laure Therme
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To establish and update the list of nesting sites in Sicily and its minor islands. To investigate the Sicilian distribution and nesting suitability using spatial distribution models (SDMs). Performing a gap analysis in a GIS environment considering the protected area network in Sicily.
Chiara Siddiolo +3 more
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Philia and neikos in Keats’s 'Song of four faeries'
Despite the fact that Keats’s “Song of four faeries” received very little critical attention, the poem raises interesting issues regarding the creative and destructive forces in nature.
A.C. Swanepoel
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The Divine Names of the Four Elements [PDF]
En este artículo se realiza un análisis textual de la "doctrina de los cuatro elementos" formulada por el filósofo presocrático Empédocles de Agrigento.
García-Escrivá, Vicente
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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Teleologia e necessidade Natural em Aristóteles [PDF]
Neste artigo, procurarei examinar por que, em Aristóteles, as composições orgânico-animadas, no mais das vezes, ocorrem segundo certa finalidade. Namedida em que a forma atua como fator causal de caráter teleológico, ela regulaas propriedades e os ...
de Carvalho, Rodrigo Romão
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The four elements: living beings or inert matter? Plato’s Timaeus against Empedocles’s On nature
. In this paper, I argue that Empedocles’s peculiar expression according to which the roots – living entities, each endowed with thought and desires – “are themselves” forces the reader to think of them not solely as the principles of generation, never ...
Federico Casella
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The alchemical symbols for metals, acids, bases and salts were still in everyday use in much of the 18th century. The modern notation, which we use today, is due to Berzelius, but the transition was long and arduous and took place between ca. 1775 and 1820 roughly simultaneously with but distinct from the Chemical Revolution.
Curt Wentrup
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This paper endeavours to demonstrate that certain strands of ancient and modern cosmological thought are not as dissimilar as one might initially believe.
David Preston
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