amir hosein shahgoli; faeze eskandary
Abstract
Basics in various sciences have the authority of confirmative principles and subject principles. The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of four elements in the plant biology of the Islamic period. This research will be done using the library method based on historical studies with an ...
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Basics in various sciences have the authority of confirmative principles and subject principles. The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of four elements in the plant biology of the Islamic period. This research will be done using the library method based on historical studies with an analytical approach. The hypothesis of this research emphasizes that the four elements are the material cause, which has been inference for the first time in this article. The findings obtained from the examination of original historical sources show that there are four elements in two fields of botany, including plant biology and plant conditions. Because four elements are present in a plant and each one has a specific task, it is necessary to analyze the faculties of the plant into four elements (Earth, water, air, & fire) that have four qualities (warmth, coldness, wetness, dryness). Also, the cause for the differences and discrepancies in plants is related to the difference in the composition of four elements in them, and the conditions and parts of plants are also explained based on the four element system.
