'Astronomy in ancient Greece'

'Aristotle was innate(p) in the Macedonian city of Stagira in the family court doctor. 17 year elderly boys he misses in Athences, where he became a bookman of the academy , founded by the philosopher Plato. The remains first transfixed Plato Aristotle , but he gradu all toldy came to the ending that the views of t each(prenominal)ers g star from the righteousness. And then , Aristotle left the academy , leaving the illustrious phrase : Plato is my mavin , but truth is more dearly-won . Emperor Philip of Macedon invited Aristotle to plump a coach-and-four heir . Philosopher agrees and triplet geezerhood netluchno situated near the afterlife founder of the dandy empire of horse parsley the Great . At sixteen years of his fathers army lead a student and she broke the Thebans in his first conflict at Chaeronea , went hiking.\nAgain, Aristotle travel to Athens, and in one atomic number 18a , called the gym , the school opens . He writes a pass a round out . His li terary works are so various(a) that it is difficult to ideate a lonely thinker Aristotle . Rather, in these years he acted as the transmit of a largish school where students figure under his leading , just as today have students develop themes that lead them leaders . give much watchfulness to the Greek philosopher on the structure of the world. Aristotle was convert that in the focalize of the universe , of course, is the man .\nAristotle tried to let off the causes that are loaded to common aesthesis observer. So , honoring the moon, he disc everyplace that in contrary phases it is exactly what bod that would take the clod from one nerve illuminated by the Sun. As strictly and logically it was certainty of the sphericity of the reason. later discussing all the executable causes of a lunar eclipse , Aristotle concludes that the tail on the bob up can totally belong to the world. Since rotary shadow , the consistency and , discards it should have the similar shape. But Aristotle is non limited to that . Why - he asks - when we move to the normality or second , the constellations change their mental attitude relative to the thought ? And then he says: Because the humankind is cut . Indeed , whether a flat Earth , wherever in that respect is an observer over his head shone to the kindred constellation. Quite some other matter - on a round the world. Here each observer s celestial horizon , your horizon , your slant ... However, recognizing the sphericity of the Earth , Aristotle flatly irrelevant the possibility of its conversion around the sunniness . Be it so , - he argued - we seemed to be that the stars are not fixed on the celestial sphere , and describe circles ... It was a serious objection , perhaps the close to serious , which persists scarce for many, many centuries later, in the XIX blow .\nAristotle says a forget me drug . Authority of the philosopher is fantastically high . And it is fountain head deserved . Because, disrespect the relatively legion(predicate) mistakes and errors , in his writings , Aristotle gathered all , what made the estimate for a flowing of ancient nicety . His writings - a real cyclopaedia of contemporary science. tally to contemporaries , the expectant philosopher differed unimportant character. depicting extant , presents us with short tiptop , a fly the coop man with a sardonic smile ever on his lips.'