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Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης) was born in 384 BC in Stageira (Macedonia). His father Nikomachos was the personal physician of King Amyntas III of Macedonia, at whose court in Pella Aristotle grew up. Since his father died when he was still a minor, Proxenus frrom Atarneus took over Aristotle (Fig. 8.1) as gardian. Proxenus let Aristotle experience a comprehensive education, at the end of which he was sent to study in Athens.
Aristotle is one of the richest and most comprehensive scientific geniuses that has ever appeared,—a man to whom no time has an equal. [For he] has penetrated into the whole mass and all sides of the real universe and has subjected their wealth and dispersion to the concept; and most philosophical sciences owe their distinction, their beginning to him. (G. W.F. Hegel )
Hegel G.W.F., quoted by Flashar H.: Aristoteles, Lehrer des Abendlandes, Chap. 10
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Notes
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Vita Vulgata $ 9, quoted from: Düring I.: Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition 1957.
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Rose V. (ed.): Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta, Teubner Leipzig 1886.
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Leroi A. M.: The Lagoon or How Aristotle Invented Science, Theiss 2017.
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Malink M.: Syllogism, pp. 343–348, in the anthology: Aristoteles-Handbuch.
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Malink M.: Logic, pp. 480–484, in the anthology: Aristoteles-Handbuch.
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Flashar H.: Life (p. 5), in the anthology: Aristoteles-Handbuch.
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Herrmann, D. (2022). Aristotle and the Lyceum. In: Ancient Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_8
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