Aristotle biography short

I. Intro

Aristotle may have been the most influential scientist and philosopher in the western world before Isaac Newton — for about 2,000 years that is — Aristotle’s empirical observations and careful analyses modeled the scientific method for all subsequent scientists.

Moreover, his observations, such as in biology, were so extensive that some of them, such as the reproductive arm of the octopus, were not verified again by science until the 19^th century.

Aristotle’s works constitute the foundations of:

• Literary analysis
• Political philosophy
• Ethics, aesthetics
• Meteorology
• Botanical and biological classification

He also contributed to mathematics, astronomy, music theory, metaphysics, and linguistics; in fact, he was the first to recognize and name most of these disciplines as distinct areas of knowledge.

And whatever topic he tackled, he transformed.

Aristotle was known in medieval Europe as “the Philosopher” and by ancient Muslim scholars as