Aristotle

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early history of chemistry. Aristotle was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
Aristotle made the first major advances in the field of philosophy of
nature. He saw the universe as lying between two scales: form without matter
and is at one end and matter without form is at the other end. One the most
important aspects of Aristotle's philosophy was the development of potentiality
to actuality. That can be explained as something possibility in terms of its
accuracy. The actual state compare to the potential state is demonstrated in
terms of the causes which act on things. The four causes include material cause,
efficient cause, formal cause, and final cause. First the material cause is
also defined as the elements out of which matter is created. The way in which
matter is created is known as efficient cause. Formal cause is called the
expression of what the material actually is . The last cause, appropriately
named final cause, is for ...

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