Physics

Aristotle is one of the greatest thinkers of antiquity, a student of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great, who synthesized in his works the experience of the classical era of ancient Greek philosophy and had a huge influence on the development of European and world culture. He was a scholar-encyclopedist who stood at the origins of modern science. He developed one of the first universal models of the universe and a comprehensive system of scientific knowledge, covering various spheres of human life. Aristotle outlined a circle of concepts and introduced terminology that is still used in philosophical vocabulary and largely defines the guidelines and horizons of modern scientific thinking. "Physics" is a fundamental treatise by Aristotle, consisting of eight books, serving as an introduction to all other natural-scientific works of the thinker, including those that today we classify as belonging to the fields of biology and psychology. The treatise explores the principles (or laws) of any natural phenomena, as well as general problems of motion. Aristotle's "Physics" has little in common with the science now called physics, yet this treatise is still considered one of the highest achievements of human thought in relation to the science of nature.