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//**Aristotle**//

Although Aristotle was most known as a great philosopher, he also was the first man to ever to classify human knowledge into distinct diciplines; such as mathamatics, biology, and ethics. Not only did he create the basic ground for future physics and meteorologic, but his extensive works on natural history and zoology remained the ultimate authority on the subjects for centuries.

Aristotle was born in 384 BC, and at age 18 was sent to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy. He left the Academy after Plato died; he traveled extensively around Asia and married Pythias, who later bore him a daughter. After his daughter was born, Aristotle was invited to tutor Alexander the Great. In 335 BC, Aristotle created his own school called Lyceum. During this time, he remarried because his preivious wife, Pythias died. The wife, Herpyllis, bore him a son. Near the end of Alexander the Greats life, Alexander suspecting plots against himself and threatened Aristotle. Aristotle then fled to his mother's estate and later died of natural causes in 322 BC.

Aristotle was most likely the last person to know everything there was to know in his own time. Most of his work has been lost through the passage of time, but around one thrid remains to this day. He laid down the groundwork for modern day biology, and was a towering figure in Greek history.


 * Quotes:**

"It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center."

"A line is not made up of points. … In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.'"

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"


 * Works Cited:**

"Aristotle [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." //Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy //. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 21 Oct. 2005. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. .