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Vestígios da cosmologia de Empédocles em fontes latinas dos séculos XII-XIII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core  

Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?

open access: yesÉtudes Platoniciennes, 2014
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
doaj   +1 more source

Heat Nests: The Impact of Climate Change on Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) Nesting Distribution in Sicily (Italy)

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Philia and neikos in Keats’s 'Song of four faeries'

open access: yesLiterator, 2007
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Divine Names of the Four Elements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 486-500, December 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Teleologia e necessidade Natural em Aristóteles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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

open access: yesJournal of ancient philosophy
. 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Transition from Alchemical to Modern Chemical Symbolism: from Bergman and Guiton de Morveau to Hassenfratz and Adet, Higgins, Richter, Dalton, and Berzelius

open access: yesChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Issue 7, July 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Empedocles’ Big Break

open access: yesSapiens ubique civis, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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