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1 Classical elements in Greece

The Greek classical elements are fire, air, water, and earth. They represent in Greek philosophy, science, and medicine the possible constituents of the cosmos.

Fire is both hot and dry.

Air is both hot and wet.

Water is both cold and wet.

Earth is both cold and dry.

One classic diagram (right) has two squares on top of each other, with the corners of one being the classical elements, and the corners of the other being the properties.

According to Galen, these elements were used by Hippocrates in describing the human body with an association with the four humours: phlegm (water), yellow bile (fire), black bile (earth), and bloodBlood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells ( red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related to blood often begin in hemo or hemato ( BE: haemo and haemato from the Greek word for "blood". Blood of different spe (air).

Some cosmologies include a fifth element, the " quintessenceIn alchemy, among the classical elements, quintessence (meaning "fifth element", along with earth, air, fire, and water) was another term for aether; it is the substance of which the heavenly bodies were supposed to be composed. More loosely, quintessence." These five elements are sometimes associated with the five platonic solidA Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron whose faces all use the same regular polygon and such that the same number of faces meet at all its vertices. Compare with the Kepler-Poinsot solids, which are not convex, and the Archimedean and Johnson solids, whis.

The PythagoreansPythagoras ( 582 BC 496 BC, Greek: Πυθαγρας) was an Ionian mathematician and philosopher, known best for formulating the Pythagorean theorem. Pythagoras, known as "the father of numbers", made influential cont added idea as the fifth element, and also used the initial letters of these five elements to name the outer angles of their pentagram.

2 Classical elements in Hinduism

The classical elements in Hinduism are: Bhoomi ( earth), Jala ( water), Agni ( fire), Vayu ( air) and Akasa ( space). Together they were known as Panchabhootha (five elements).

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