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Aristotle: The first encyclopedist

History and Philosophy of Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Aristotle was the first to declare himself in the class of natural philosophers ({\em physiologoi}) and he was the first physicist because he spelled out the first definitions of some basic physical concepts. Moreover, he was the first encyclopedist of the world and perhaps the greatest

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0209063,
  title  = {Aristotle: The first encyclopedist},
  author = {H. C. Rosu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0209063},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages plus one figure, enlarged version in English of a published Spanish text