Which ancient Greek philosopher put forward Jin Mu's fire, water and earth?

The Five Elements is China's ancient material view. Mostly used in philosophy, Chinese medicine and divination. The five elements refer to: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. It is believed that nature is composed of five elements, and with the rise and fall of these five elements, nature changes, which not only affects people's fate, but also makes everything in the universe circulate endlessly. According to the Five Elements Theory, everything in the universe is made up of five basic substances: wood, fire, earth, water and gold, which is caused by the lack of understanding of the world in ancient China. It emphasizes the concept of the whole and describes the structural relationship and movement form of things. If Yin and Yang are an ancient theory of unity of opposites, the five elements can be said to be a primitive general system theory.

The theory of four elements is an ancient Greek theory about the material composition of the world. These four elements are earth, air, water and fire. This view has long influenced the development of human science.

Water element: Thales, the first western philosopher (about 625-547 BC), believed that everything in the universe was made up of water, the basic element.

Air element: Thales' student anaximander (about 665438 BC+00-546 BC) thought that the basic element could not be water, but an indefinite infinite substance. Anaximenes, a student in anaximander (about 585-525 BC), further analyzed that the basic element is gas, which is diluted into fire and condensed into wind, which condenses into clouds, clouds into water and water into stones, and then all this constitutes everything.

Fire element: Heraclitus (about 535-475 BC) believed that everything originated from fire, so it was always changing.

Earth element and the formation of four-element theory: empedocles (about 490-430 BC) integrated the views of predecessors and added "earth", so there were four elements of water, air, fire and earth.

Visualization of the four elements (like mathematical school): Plato (427-347 BC) visualized the four elements, and viewed them from a geometric point of view. He thought that the atomic shapes of the four elements were regular polyhedrons: fire atoms were the sharpest regular tetrahedrons, gas atoms were almost imperceptible regular octahedrons, water was a smooth regular icosahedron like a ball, and soil was a cube that could be stacked. There are five regular polyhedrons and one regular dodecahedron with no corresponding elements. Plato said that God arranged the constellations in the sky.

The development of the theory of four elements: Plato's student Aristotle (384-322 BC) thought that the elements that make up celestial bodies are different from the earth, which are pure "ether" and the fifth element, corresponding to regular dodecahedron. On the basis of his teacher's four-element geometry, Aristotle developed the four-element theory into a system: soil is the heaviest and constitutes the core of the earth; Water is light and covers the earth's surface; Gas and fire are lighter, covering the earth or flying upwards; The lightest ether is located in the sky and orbits the earth. This ideology effectively supports the geocentric theory.