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Natural philosophy 5
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fifth century BCE
On Nature
A cosmological poem explaining the four roots, cosmic cycles, perception and natural phenomena.
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c. 350 BCE
On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle explains change among the four simple bodies through the contrary qualities hot and cold, dry and moist.
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After 1248; probably completed 1261–1262
De mineralibus
Albertus Magnus studies stones, metals and intermediate substances through Aristotelian natural philosophy while recording alchemical and astrological theories current in the...
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1619
Harmonices Mundi
book by Johannes Kepler
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undated