Meteorology (Illustrated Edition)

Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Socratic Method as a way to argue and debate points rationally. Still, Aristotle was very much his own philosopher. Though he studied at Platos famous academy, he was not hesitant to counter or criticize Platos philosophical stances on certain issues. Aristotle was the most renowned Ancient Greek philosopher for nearly 2,000 years, and his most famous work is Rhetoric, his preeminent treatise on the art of persuasion. Aristotle is widely credited with being the forbearer of the study of the art of rhetoric. It would be another 2,000 years before natural science would become a common profession, but Aristotle wrote Meteorology in the 4th century B.C., an ancient treatise that included his theories about the planet's phenomena. Aristotle's work described what to him was not readily explainable, including the evaporation of water and earthquakes. This edition of Aristotles Meteorology is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with pictures of the famous Greek philosophers.