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The great Greek “charlatan”: Empedocles
, 2022 This article revises the views about Empedocles of Akragas. Even contemporaries of the thinker were confronted with the question of whether he was a great sage or a charlatan.
Rudin, Oleg V.
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Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology
Ecology Letters, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 1005-1020, June 2023., 2023 Leaf angle is crucial in light interception for plant canopies. It is a morphological trait that is associated with many other leaf traits in the leaf economics spectrum. We reviewed the importance of leaf angle in ecology and used model simulations to demonstrate the importance of leaf angle in simulating canopy fluxes.
Xi Yang +11 more
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 88, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 A metal worker's laboratory: from Georg Agricola, De re Metallica, Libri XII, Basel, 1556, illustrating a reverberatory oven similar to what Carl Wenzel would have used to divide his metals in the 1770s. This Perspective essay discusses Wenzel, who was a chemist and an alchemist with deep knowledge of acids, bases and salts, and he was credited with ...
Curt Wentrup
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EMPEDOCLES’ COSMOLOGY AND ITS SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
Докса, 2016 The topic of the article is reconstruction of the correlation between cosmos and harmony in Empedocles’ cosmology, as well as the analogy between the pattern of cosmic periods and the changes of socio-cultural circumstances in Sicily at the end of 6th ...
Іван Михальчук
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Die plek van Empedokles in die metafisies-mistieke tradisie
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007 The place of Empedocles in metaphysical-mystical tradition This article argues that Empedocles was more than a pre-Socratic philosopher. His thinking was also essentially mystical and should be situated on a large map of metaphysical-mystical ...
J. S. Krüger
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L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 Was there an antecedent to Plato’s concept of the World Soul in the writings of the Presocratics? Given the scarcity of our evidence, it is safer to narrow the question down: Does Plato himself point to such an antecedent?
Filip Karfík
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PLAGIARISM AS ANTROPOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2018 Purpose of the article is to determine plagiarism as anthropological and social phenomenon. Theoretical basis. The author has analysed authentic historical-philosophical and literary texts to explicate the original meaning of the terms, by which the ...
T. S. Parkhomenko
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 The paper analyses fragmentarily preserved views of Empedocles, that, in the author’s opinion, represent the antecedents of deviations from the anthropocentric vision of the world and anticipate the majority of later attempts at scientific ...
Željko Kaluđerović
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Théorie poétique, vérité et représentation du divin chez Empédocle et Pindare
Pallas, 2018 Empedocles understands the truth-value of lyric poetry as a form of mythical authority from which the lyric poets wished to distinguish themselves; as the nature of their conception of truth depends on the necessity of honoring an athlete, the lyric ...
Xavier Gheerbrant
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The Editing of the Erotic in Hölderlin’s Empedocles Project
HumanitiesWhile the development of the Empedocles figure in the various versions of Hölderlin’s unfinished tragedy has long been the subject of scholarship, the shifts in his relationships to the women around him have largely gone unnoticed.
Priscilla Ann Hayden-Roy
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