No substance existed. But yeah each idea of dominant effect, the Sun has the greatest influence on the earth’s daily and seasonal cycles. It’s responsible for day and night and as the caved dwellers and megalith builders of prehistory discovered is daily range of altitudes in the sky, determines the seasons, Tommy pointed out the natural cycles of follow.
The moon such as tides and the behavior of animals and concluded that the sun’s dominant. Effects are modulated by the lunar and planetary positions and that these are transmitted to earth by the weather patterns. In our atmosphere, He goes on to state that since it’s clear that the seasonal weather patterns affect the quality and quantity of crops plants and animals.
It’s entirely reasonable that they help determine human growth and personality too by his theory. The temperament of the very moment in which the individual is born is imprinted inside the person. And this temperament is determined by the position of the planets. What’s notable about Ptolemy’s work is that he is proposing a strictly physical link between the planets and the air in Earth’s atmosphere.
He’s taken the idea of godly intervention out of the equation To do this. He drew on the work of the first Greek, philosophers known today. As the pre-Socratic philosophers, They lived in the Greek, coastal city of militus in Anatolia, modern Turkey. And they embrace the idea of microcosm macrocosm.
As a result, their ruminations explored. The twin themes of nature, macrocosm and human nature, microcosm and began to separate the contemplation of nature from religion. They did this by looking for purely physical connections, between things, rather than attributing natural phenomena to the will of the gods sales of militus is often cited as the father of ancient, Greek philosophy.
He advanced the idea that both earth and the cosmos were made of the same substance. He suggested that the most fundamental form of matter was water and that everything else from rocks to air to fire was also water. Just converted into different forms or phases, warmth or fish. It’s contemporary an axymander, suggested that a separate primal substance existed that embodied.
All four properties of ordinary matter, Hot and cold dry, and moist Something the effect Ordinary matter. Then condensed primal substance. When these various contradictory parities were separated, A third member of the military School and Maximini’s return to the idea of a known primary substance but chose this to be air which could then condense into water and earth or thin into clouds and fire By the time of Pythagoras in a sixth century BCE the idea of the four classical elements earth, water air and fire and their associated properties hot cold dry and moist was locked in