Aristotle
Aya hamam, Veronica Anaya, Brenna Colley
Birth and Childhood
Heliocentric vs Geocentric
Contributions and Understandings
He was also the first to classify areas of human knowledge into distinct categories such as mathematics, biology and ethics. He was also the first to study plants, animals and people in different ways. He classified animals into species based on those that had red blood and those that didn't.
Out of over 200 works only 31 survive today. One of which is "Organon" which is a set of writings that are used in scientific and philosophical investigations. Also, Physics and Metaphysics, both are studies about the nature of matter and change and an investigation of existence itself.
In his studies of Meteorology, he identified the water cycle and discussed everything from natural disasters to astrological events. His own definition of meteorology was, "affectations we may call common to air and water, and the kinds and parts of the earth and the affectations of its parts."
Death and Legacy
Works Cited
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