Universe model aristotle biography

Work by Aristotle

On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BCE,^[1] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.

It should not be confused with the spurious work On the Universe (De Mundo, also known as On the Cosmos).

This work is significant as one of the defining pillars of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated intellectual thinking for almost two millennia.

Universe model aristotle biography

Similarly, this work and others by Aristotle were important seminal works from which much of scholasticism was derived.

Argument

According to Aristotle in De Caelo, the heavenly bodies are the most perfect realities, (or "substances"), whose motions are ruled by principles other than those of bodies in the sublunary sphere.

The latter are composed of one or all of the four classical elements (earth