Tools to understand the theory of the 4 elements, a philosophical vision of the world describing it with water, earth, fire and air
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The 4 Elements
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The 4 Elements and Associated Concepts
| Concept | Water | Earth | Fire | Air | Whole |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platonic solid | Icosahedron | Cube | Tetrahedron | Octahedron | Dodecahedron |
| Color | Blue/Gray | Green/Orange | Red/Yellow | While/Cyan | |
| Alchemy Symbol | ▽ | △ | |||
| Quality | cold + wet | cold + dry | hot + dry | hot + wet |
Tools to understand the theory of the 4 elements, a philosophical vision of the world describing it with water, earth, fire and air
Answers to Questions
What is the order of the elements?
According to Aristotle: Earth < Water < Air < Fire
Who imagined the 4 elements?
The first reference to the four elements is made by Empedocles near 460 BC. It refers to four roots: Zeus (fire), Hera (Earth), Aidoneus (air) and Nestis (water).
What is the correspondence with platonic solids?
Plato assimilates Earth to a cube, water to an icosahedron, air to an octahedron and fire to a tetrahedron. There is also the world (the whole) compared to a dodecahedron.
Example: See the names of geometric shapes.
What is the 5th element?
In the past, some theoreticians denied the nature of the empty, imagined a fifth element: the ether (or quintessence), above all others, for containing the stars.
What are buddhism 4 great elements?
1 - pruṭhavī-dhātu - solidity or attraction.
2 - āpa-dhātu - liquidity or relative motion.
3 - teja-dhātu - heat or energy.
4 - vāyu-dhātu - expansion or repulsive forces.
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