Maudlin, Tim (2024) Earth, Air, Fire and Water: A Charitable Reading of Ancient Greek Chemistry (With a Warning About Bad Translations. UNSPECIFIED.
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This is a short comment about the most charitable way to interpret the Ancient Greek view that the "elements" are Earth, Air, Fire and Water, along with some comments about a serious flaw in widely-read translations of Plato's Timaeus.
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| Keywords: | Plato, Aristotle, Empedocles, elemental change, four elements theory, Timaeus, Jowett. | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Chemistry General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Tim Maudlin | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2024 14:56 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2024 14:56 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23830 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Chemistry General Issues > History of Science Case Studies |
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| Date: | 25 August 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23830 |
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