ARISTOTLE
FAMILY
- His father, Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon
- His mother, Phaestis was a woman of Aristocratic descent
- He had one sister whos name was Arimneste
- a brother who's name was Arimnestus
- He had two children, a girl and a boy
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Aristotle’s method of investigation varied from one natural science to another, depending on the problems encountered, but it usually included
- defining the subject matter
- considering the difficulties involved by reviewing the generally accepted views on the subject, and suggestions of earlier writers
- presenting his own arguments and solutions
- Biggest contribution was in Biology
- Aristotle assumed everything on earth was made up of four elements: earth, water, air and fire, and each of these to be a combination of two of four opposites, hot and cold, and wet and dry
- Aristotle's Laws Of Movement:
- Heavier things fall faster, the speed being proportioned by the weight
- the speed of fall of a given object depends inversely of the density of the medium it is falling through
- Aristotle stated that the speed of the moving object was in direct proportion to the applied force
FACTS
- Aristotle's system has been the springboard for every major human achievement of the past 1,000 years
- Without Aristotle the United States wouldn't have been able to be created
- He was trained first in medicine and then in 367 BC he got sent to Athens to study philosophy with Plato
- He stayed at Plato’s Academy until about 347
- He has also been under the supervision of Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great became a student of Aristotle in 343 BC
- The majority of his original work has been lost through the passage of time but around one third of it still remains to this day
- As well as science, Aristotle wrote on many other subjects like poetry, music, theater, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, ethics and politics
- Aristotle was a historian, he recorded data and analyzed see life