~~Aristotle~~



[] Name: Aristotle Date of birth and death: 384-322 BC Country: Greece

Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice. Since his father was the personal physician to King Macedone, he was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. He was a student of Plato's and a teacher of the kings Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, and Cassander when he was appointed head of the royal academy of Macedon. In his researches he traveled to many places but by 335 BC he had returned to Athens and established his own school known as the Lyceum. Aristotle studied almost every subject possible at the time and made significant contributions to most of them. He had a wife, Pythias, with whom he had a daughter named Pythias and a son from another women named Nicomachus. Alledgedly, he also had an adolescent boy as a lover.

Aristotle believed in five elements: fire, earth, air, water, and aether (divine substance that makes up the stars ad planets). These elements were associated with ancient Greek gods. He dismissed the atomic ideas that Democritus previously set forth.

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