ARISTOTLE

YEAR OF BIRTH AND YEAR HE DIED

• He was born in 384 B.C.
• He died in 322 B.C.

FUN FACTS

• He came from a family of of doctors
• He was a student of Plato
• He taught cassander and Alexander the Great
• They both grew up and became kings
• Grew up in Athens but grew up in Stagira, Greece

FACTS

• His philosophy had a big influence on Muslim and catholic religion
• He established a school called Lyceum
• It is located in Athens next to a Apollo statue
• He is also known for his extremely smart quotes
• Only one third of his writings are still here today

QUOTES

• "A friend to all is a friend to none"
• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies"
• "Hope is a waking dream"
• "Happiness depends upon ourselves"
• "Quality is not an act; it is a habit"

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE

• Made a new method of studying by finding clues and proof
• He proved the earth was sphere
• He did that by observing the earths shadow during an eclipse
• He also made the scientific method;Composition,shape,change, and purpose
• He also discovered the five elements fire, water, earth, air, and ether

ARISTOTLE FOUR CAUSES

• Material: That from which something is made
• Efficient: that by which something is made
• Formal: that into something is made
• Final: That for the sake of which something is made
• He thought this was responsible for any real change and movement

MORE FACTS

• Aristotle composed two types of writing one for the public and the other for his students and other teachers
• He invented a science called "causality" which explained why things happened
• Aristotle was more interested in he literary work of humans rather then exploration
• He wrote on a lot of other subjects including poetry, theater, music, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, ethic, and politics.

EVEN MORE

• He is regarded as one of the smartest human being to walk the earth
• Aristotle is one of if not the most influential person to ever live
• He was forced to close his school and died a year later
• He would always question everything which intrigued a lot of scholars
• His philosophy had a big influence on catholic and Muslim religions

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.willamette.edu/~sbasu/poli212/AristotleonCause.htm
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aristotle.html
• www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientist/Aristotle.html
• www.biographies.knoji.com/30-interesting-facts-about-Aristotle-the-great-Gr...
• www.history.com/topics/Aristotle

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