tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post73499161571447815..comments2024-03-28T20:47:48.468-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUME PART TWORobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-46303275998678628172011-08-29T12:32:56.551-04:002011-08-29T12:32:56.551-04:00Ok. Interesting.Ok. Interesting.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-59226733833700397412011-08-29T12:10:01.100-04:002011-08-29T12:10:01.100-04:00Just for future reference, I'm pretty sure tha...Just for future reference, I'm pretty sure that Aristotle is the one who came up with quintessence. Empedocles, who had the elemental earth, water, air, fire view, thought that the stars were balls of fire. This is important historically because Galileo and Newton were drawing on ancient atomism in their refutation of scholastic physics, so having a source that did not make the terrestrial/celestial distinction in physics was probably quite helpful for them.J.Vlasitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10340794410334308312noreply@blogger.com