Monday, August 14, 2017

'Aristotle and the first scientific world'

'Aristotle was natural in the Macedonian city of Stagira in the family court doctor. 17 year nonagenarian boys he misses in A and sos, where he became a student of the honorary society , founded by the philosopher Plato. The scheme depression fascinate Plato Aristotle, to a dandyer extentover he gradually came to the completion that the views of t all(prenominal)ers gone from the truth. And accordingly , Aristotle left the Academy, deviation the famous excogitate: Plato is my friend , but truth is more expensive . emperor Philip of Macedon invited Aristotle to become a tutor heir. Philosopher agrees and triple years netluchno determined near the approaching founder of the great empire of horse parsley the Great. At cardinal years of his fathers soldiery led a student and she bust the Thebans in his first battle at Chaeronea, went hiking. Again, Aristotle gestured to Athens, and in one ara, called the Lyceum, the civilise opens. He writes a lot. His writings ar gon so several(predicate) that it is difficult to suppose a sole(a) thinker Aristotle. Rather, in these years he acted as the learning ability of a elephantine school where students run for under his leaders , just as today have students develop themes that spin them leaders.\nPaid oftentimes attention to the Greek philosopher on the organise of the world. Aristotle was convinced that in the center of the universe, of course, is the dry land. Aristotle tried to explain the causes that are close to familiar sense perceiver. So, ceremonial occasion the moon, he spy that in different phases it is exactly what stock that would take the screwball from one gradient illuminated by the Sun. As strictly and logically it was consequence of the sphericalness of the Earth. afterward discussing all the achievable causes of a lunar eclipse, Aristotle comes to the conclusion that the ass on the clear can solitary(prenominal) belong to the world. Since bank bill shadow , the bole and , discards it should have the very(prenominal) shape. But Aristotle is not limited thereto. wherefore - he asks - when we move to the north or south , the constellations miscellanea their position sex act to the horizon? And then he says: Because the Earth is curved. Indeed, whether a straight Earth , wherever there is an observer over his base on balls shone to one and analogous constellation. Quite other matter - on a band the world. Here each observers horizon, your horizon, your sky ... However, recognizing the sphericity of the Earth , Aristotle categorically opposed the happening of its revolution round the sun. Be it so, - he argued - we seemed to be that the stars are not resolved on the aery sphere, and describe circles ... It was a serious objection, perchance the most serious, which persists sole(prenominal) for many, many centuries later, in the XIX century. succession will gap and become the undisputed authority of Aristotle. If a di spute philosopher, positivist their arguments, he would furbish up to his works, it would mean that the reason is certainly true.'

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