Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... fire as being life- giving and purifying . The fire , the Pythagoreans believed , is surrounded by ten concentric spherical shells or spheres . The inmost but one of these spheres takes the Earth round the central fire in the course of ...
... fire as being life- giving and purifying . The fire , the Pythagoreans believed , is surrounded by ten concentric spherical shells or spheres . The inmost but one of these spheres takes the Earth round the central fire in the course of ...
143. oldal
... fire , and nothing can be touched without a certain hardness . Therefore the Timaios maintains that ' in the beginning God created the body of the universe from fire and earth ' . But according to Plato the two substances cannot be kept ...
... fire , and nothing can be touched without a certain hardness . Therefore the Timaios maintains that ' in the beginning God created the body of the universe from fire and earth ' . But according to Plato the two substances cannot be kept ...
147. oldal
... fire and air as active , and water and earth as passive elements . This means that to the Stoics heat and cold were primary forces in nature , and can be explained by their interest in the processes taking place in living organisms ...
... fire and air as active , and water and earth as passive elements . This means that to the Stoics heat and cold were primary forces in nature , and can be explained by their interest in the processes taking place in living organisms ...
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