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QUINTESSENCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUINTESSENCE , in See also:

ancient and scholastic See also:philosophy, the name given to the fifth immaterial See also:element, over and above the four material elements, See also:air, See also:water, See also:earth and See also:fire, which See also:Aristotle assumed to be permeating the whole See also:world, and called obaia: in See also:medieval philosophy this was called quinta essentia, the fifth essence, and by many was considered material and therefore capable of extraction. The ancient See also:Indian philosophers also contain the same See also:idea of a fifth element; thus there were five See also:Sanskrit elements ( bhutas) , earth, See also:wind, fire, water and See also:aether. In the See also:history of See also:chemistry the name was applied, by See also:analogy, to the most concentrated See also:extract of a substance.

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