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Aristotle

Aristotle (fig 1) was born in 384 B.C.E in Stagira and died in 322 B.C.E in Euboea. He was Plato’s student and the teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle lived in a period where a lot of great thinkers emerged, and in most of his studies he was inspired by some of them. Aristotle had a thought on everything, from physics to the tragedy without forgetting the condition of the women. He has four principal works in natural philosophy called: Physic, On the Heaven, On Coming to be and Passing away and finally on Meteorology . Although Aristotle lived in a period where people did not have any reason to believe that the earth was a globe, in the book On the Heaven he made the most ...

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to this question a mystery. The population at that time was influenced by the myths and the stories written by Hesiod and because of that, used to believe that the earth was flat (fig2). The earth was seen as a horizontal disc encircled by the ocean called “Oceanus” . Moreover, they believed that the moon, the sun and the stars were gods and had names like Apollo or Zeus, they did not believe that they were planets that were around the Earth .
Around 350 B.C.E, Aristotle, one of the greatest Western thinkers , using the work of his master, Plato and the calculation made by Pythagoras, came along with an astrophysical work called “On the heaven”(fig 3), which was the most influential piece of its kind for about eighteen centuries. He was the first to find out the reasons why the Earth was a sphere and not a flat object, but he was also the first one to discover that the Earth was part of the Universe. He explained that the Universe is spherical having the sphere of the fixed ...

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Added: 3/2/2011 08:48:09 AM
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