Ancient cultures in Greece, Tibet, and India had similar lists, sometimes referring in local languages to "air" as "wind" and the fifth element as "void". From top-left, clockwise: air, fire, water, and earth.Ĭlassical elements typically refer to water, earth, fire, air, and (later) aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. Allegories of the Classical elements, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
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