EVERY generation of biologist must rediscover Aristotle for itself, to paraphrase Armand Leroi in a BBC documentary, Aristotle’s Lagoon. Four years on, Leroi, a biologist at Imperial College London, ...

How Aristotle invented science. The great ancient Greek, and life on Earth. A 1597 map of Lesbos / Mytilene, Greece by Giacomo Franco. (Flickr / Creative Commons) Aristotle is, of course, the great ...

I might not be the only reader to omit Armand Marie Leroi’s “The Lagoon” from my list of 2014’s best books. Alone or not, I’d like to make amends now. Subtitled “How Aristotle Invented Science,” the ...

Who is the Father of Biology? Discover the life and legacy of Aristotle, the ancient Greek genius who first classified living things and invented the scientific study of life.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Well, it's happy birthday Aristotle, 2,400 years of age and still revered, though he ...

The Greeks used the word episteme for science. Episteme means knowledge, techne (craftsmanship), understanding, and experience. Episteme / science was primarily knowledge from the observation of ...

STAGIRA, Greece, May 26 (UPI) --For 20 years, scientists have been excavating the archaeological site of Stagira in northern Greece. On Thursday, they announced their most significant discovery yet: ...