13 May 2013

Classical World View: Quest for the First Principle

The Western Philosophies in Classical or Ancient era had gone after the quest for the ‘First Principles’. Philosophers had discussed about several elements which were supposed to originate the existence of earth with. That quest had begun from first philosopher in western World, Thales of Ionia (636-546 BC) who was one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, till the time of Aristotle (4^th Century BC). These classical or Greek philosophers are often tagged as natural philosophers with their supposition of natural things or world to be the fundamental elements.

The first philosopher to make the quest is Thales of Ionia. He started to talk about natural concept destroying divine and mythological concepts. Argumentative method for philosophy was developed. Thales claimed that everything in this world is made up of water because everything come with moisture. He created the metaphysics. He even believed that the earth floats in water. Seeds of everything have got some sort of moist in it which is the element of water. 

Slanting rays of sun on frigid zone

Slanting rays of sun on frigid zone

Frigid zone is the one of the heat or climatic zones of the earth which lies in 66.5˚ and above latitudinal height towards south and north poles of the earth. On the basis of the heat received from the Sun, earth is divided into 3 heat zones. They are Frigid zone (66.5˚ and above South and North), temperate zone (23.5˚ to 66.5˚ South and North) and torrid zone (0˚-23.5˚ South and North). Heat zone is synonymously used as the climatic zone in geography.

The earth rotates in the direction of east to west and along with the equatorial line. That’s why, places in equator gets direct vertical heat of the sun and heat zone is also called torrid zone. In torrid zone, temperature rises extremely  and weather changes very frequently. Similarly, in temperate heat zone climate remains warm, moist and damp causing relief rainfall.

As Frigid zone (Southern and Northern frigid zones) stretches from 66.5˚ latitude up to 90˚ latitudinal height of the earth, it lies in extreme south and North poles of the earth. So, when earth orbits in the direction east to west putting vertical rays over equator, slanting rays are spread over