Gregory of Nyssa’s Fourth Century Water Organ (a Reconstruction) and the Elements of Creation in His Texts: Water, Air, Fire and Earth
Gregory of Nyssa’s Fourth Century Water Organ (a Reconstruction) and the Elements of Creation in His Texts: Water, Air, Fire and Earth

Summary/Abstract: Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 - c. 395), as the Platonists and most of the ancientthinkers, consider water, air, fire, and earth to be the fundaments of the created world. Hequalifies the human person to be a microcosm, a small world that reproduces the universe.When, in his dialogue On the Soul and the Resurrection,[1] Nyssen describes twoof the constituents of creation (air and water) and exemplifies how people use them, hedoes so by presenting a mechanism powered by those.This article presents a twenty first century reconstruction of that ‘installation’described by Gregory in the fourth century AD.

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