Elemental quality
Cold
One of Aristotle's four primary tangible qualities.
2 correspondences · 2 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Quality of Earth, first attested 350 BCE.
Quality of
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Earth
Traditional- Who says so
- Aristotelian elemental theory (from c. 350 BCE)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 350 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
This is Aristotle's historical natural-philosophical description of the simple body, not a modern chemical property.
Evidence
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Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, c. 350 BCE — Book II, chapter 3, 330a30–331a6
The passage states all four bodies and both qualities of each in a single sequence.
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Water
Traditional- Who says so
- Aristotelian elemental theory (from c. 350 BCE)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 350 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
This is Aristotle's historical natural-philosophical description of the simple body, not a modern chemical property.
Evidence
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Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, c. 350 BCE — Book II, chapter 3, 330a30–331a6
The passage states all four bodies and both qualities of each in a single sequence.