Sacred Texts: The Classics

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 4

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The next question to consider is whether the elements are finite or infinite in number, and, if finite, what their number is. Let us first show reason or denying that their number is infinite, as some suppose. We begin with the view of Anaxagoras that all the homoeomerous bodies are elements.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 4

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