notes about Aristotle:
- While Aristotle's contributions in each subject were considerable for the time, his major contribution was to the overall study and teaching of such subjects, many of which had never been considered before. Two areas which he advanced, which are of particular interest to readers of this site were physics and astronomy. He made very interesting discussion so the topics of matter, change, movement, space, position, and time as well as studying comets.
- His analytical method, now known as Aristotelian logic, is the backbone of not only mathematics, but of all the natural sciences.
Plato:
- Plato's main contributions are in philosophy, mathematics and science. However, it is not as easy as one might expect to discover Plato's philosophical views.
- The reason for this is that Plato wrote no systematic treatise giving his views, rather he wrote a number of dialogues (about 30) which are written in the form of conversations.
Sources: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Plato.html
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