Aristotle

             Aristotle a famous mathematician, who was also famous for his contributions to systematizing deductive logic was born on 384 BC in, Macedonia, Greece on the Chalcidic peninsula of northern Greece. His father was Nicomachus, a medical doctor, while his mother was named Phaestis. Phaestis 's family owned property in Chalcis in Euboea. Nicomachus wanted his son to become a doctor because the passing on of career was something that happened often between father and son. His father died when he was just a ten year old boy (this is why he never became a doctor), his mother also died at a very young age and because of this, he was raised by Proxenus of Atarneus, who was his uncle Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, and poetry which helped the teachings that Nicomachus had already given Aristotle as part of training he needed to enter into medicine. Since in latter life Aristotle wrote fine Greek prose, this too must have been part of his early education At the age of 17 he became a student at Plato's academy in Athens. After being a student, Aristotle soon became a teacher at the Academy and he was to remain there for twenty years. Aristotle died in 322BC.
             He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that through the centuries became the support for both medieval Christian and Islamic thinking, until the end of the 17th century. Aristotle combined the classical four elements, air, earth, fire, and water, with four qualities, hot, cold, wet and dry. All physical objects were seen as combinations of these elements and qualities.
             Aristotle had been forgotten and his works lost in Europe. They had been kept alive in Moslem countries, especially in Moorish Spain where many learned commentaries had been writen on them. In the early twelve hundreds Aristotle's works were once again becoming known in Europe. Albert saw in Aristotle's philosophy a better and stronger basis for Christian theology Aristotle b
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