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Shoults Swb 1597 A

[Geneva]: Guillemus Laemarius

Third of the ‘Big Three’ philosophers is Aristotle (384-322 BC). Born near the modern-day city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Aristotle’s father was physician to Alexander the Great’s grandfather, King Amyntas. A student at Plato’s Academy from age seventeen, Aristotle later became tutor to Alexander. His writings and teaching had enormous scope in subject matter – politics, poetry, physics, astronomy, ethics, zoology, botany, medicine – the list goes on. Aristotle was a great observer and recorder and is considered to be the first encyclopaedist. He loved logic, reasoning and analysis and is thought to have pioneered ‘some of the major intellectual innovations in the history of human thought and culture’. This volume, printed in both Greek and Latin, shows the end of the treatise, Meteorologica, Aristotle’s theories on earth science and the beginning of his treatise on zoology, De Historia Animalium.