Vestígios da cosmologia de Empédocles em fontes latinas dos séculos XII-XIII

The aim of this article is to analyse the expression that confirms the presence of traces of Empedocles’ cosmology in the Latin West in the 12th-13th centuries, that is, creatio mundi, this being the translation of κοσμοποιία. The analysis focuses, on the one hand, on three Latin translation of Aristotle’s Physics II, 4, 196a 20-24, text in which is found the term κοσμοποιία, and, on the other hand, in parts of Thomas Aquinas’ work where the author discusses the cosmology of Empedocles. For this purpose, the text is divided in three parts. Firstly, I present the problem evoked by the translation of κοσμοποιίαas creatio mundi and as factura mundi, respectively. Secondly, I expound the terms that make possible a certain vision of the whole of Empedocles’ cosmology in the 13th century. And thirdly, I show with brevity the meaning of the concept of world and its possible configuration for Empedocles.