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Theories based on observation were not always subject to experimental test, and some errors lingered on for centuries
*Aristotle's approach to science differed from Plato's. He agreed that the highest human faculty was reason, and its supreme activity was contemplation. However, in addition to studying what he called "first philosophy" - metaphysics and mathematics, the things Plato had worked on, Aristotle thought it also very important to study "second philosophy": the world around us, from physics and mechanics to biology. Perhaps being raised in the house of a physician had given him an interest in living things. [http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/aristot2.html]
*Aristotle's approach to science differed from Plato's. He agreed that the highest human faculty was reason, and its supreme activity was contemplation. However, in addition to studying what he called "first philosophy" - metaphysics and mathematics, the things Plato had worked on, Aristotle thought it also very important to study "second philosophy": the world around us, from physics and mechanics to biology. Perhaps being raised in the house of a physician had given him an interest in living things. [http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/aristot2.html]
Theories based on observation were not always subject to [[experiment]]al test, and some errors lingered on for centuries. The best known was Aristotle's theory of [[falling objects]], which despite its went essentially unchallenged until the [[Renaissance]].
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)] - University of California Museum of Paleontology
*[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)] - University of California Museum of Paleontology