Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Aristotle
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.), the great Greek philosopher, was born at Stagira, on the Strymonic Gulf, and hence called " the Stagirite." Dionysius of Halicamassus, in his Epistle on Demosthenes and Aristotle (chap. 5), gives the following sketch of his life: — Ar ...
Vol. 2, pp. 501-521 · ocr-imported-page-alignedAstrology
... turbances in that part of the heavens, which had till then, on the authority of Aristotle, been regarded as incorruptible, combined with the troubles of the times, must have given a new stimulus to belief in the signs in heaven. Montaigne (Essais, lib. i. chap ...
Vol. 2, pp. 795-799 · ocr-imported-page-alignedAstronomy
... r " homocentric " system, after it had been further elaborated by Callippus and Aristotle, was modified by Apollonius of Perga (fl. 250-220 B.C.) into the hypothesis of deferents and epicycles, which held the field for 1800 years as the characteristic embodime ...
Vol. 2, pp. 800-818 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheatre
... l background, and this was supplemented by painted scenery, which, according to Aristotle, was introduced by Sophocles: Vitruvius, however, tells us that the first scene-painter, Agatharchus, worked for Aeschylus. In their days the aia\vti was, of course, a me ...
Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 · ocr-imported-page-alignedTheology
... Plato 's Republic refers wholly to the control of myths. He further denies that Aristotle identified his First Philosophy with a " theology," holding the text of the Metaphysics to be out of order and 1 Philosophische Monatshefte (1888), Heft I and 2. See also ...
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