Exhibition of Aristotle's astronomical and cosmological views on the shape of the universe, the movements of stars and planets, which are governed by a system of concentric spheres as well as their constituent element.
The four basic bodies (air, earth, water, fire) that together constitute two pairs of opposites (heavy and light) and perform opposite movements (upward and downward).
Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 BC. Information about the early years of his life is minimal. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He stayed there for twenty years, from 367 to 348 BC, until the death of Plato. At that time, Aristotle left for Assos in Troas and after a three-year stay there, went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal heir Alexander.
When his student ascended the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his own school, the Lyceum. After the death of Alexander (323 BC), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.
A universal spirit, Aristotle produced a vast and valuable philosophical and scientific work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he researched and studied.
The Alexandrian Hermippus estimated Aristotle's works to number 400. To this day, catalogs survive that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in Aristotelian writings at 440,000. The impact of his work on shaping global thought was strong for centuries, and remains so.
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