A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c10.t7.4

v1.c10.t7.4

" Aristotle considered that his four elements were insufficient in themselves to explain the phenomena of nature ; he therefore assumed a fifth one, termed ov'vía, which he imagined to possess and a mountain, a gnat and an elephant, each alike containing an infinity of particles. The ultimate atom then is simple.