Most of Aristotle's work is probably not in its original form, since it was most likely edited by students and later lecturers.

He wrote at least 67 original works, which included 28 works on philosophy, 20 on medicine, 8 on law, 5 on theology, and 4 on grammar, in addition to his commentaries on most of Aristotle's works and his commentary on Plato's The Republic.

Christian doctrine accepted the ideas of Aristotle's original work, called Meteorologica, that winds were caused by exhalations from the Earth and that fierce storms were the work of God.

At some point, Aristotle's original work was divided in two, each " book " written on a separate roll of papyrus.

After Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a " peripatetic " lecturer – that he walked about as he taught – and the designation Peripatetikos came to replace the original Peripatos.

However in more recent generations, Aristotle's original works ( if not that of his medieval followers ) have once again become an important source.

" In 1910, 500 books had been published under the Everyman trademark, and in 1956 the thousandth volume ( Dent's original goal ) was published, with Aristotle's Metaphysics selected for the honour.

Richard Lemay has argued that the writings of Albumasar were very likely the single most important original source of Aristotle's theories of nature for European scholars, starting a little before the middle of the 12th century.

Instead, he proposed the existence of the apeiron, an indefinite substance from which all things are born and to which all things will return .< ref > Simplicius, Comments on Aristotle's Physics ( 24, 13 ).< DK 12 A9, B1 ></ ref > Apeiron ( endless or boundless ) is something completely indefinite and Anaximander was probably influenced by the original chaos of Hesiod ( yawning abyss ).

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

* The 11-volume 1837 Bekker edition of Aristotle's Works in Greek ( PDF | DJVU )

The earliest bestiary in the form in which it was later popularized was an anonymous 2nd century Greek volume called the Physiologus, which itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle's Historia Animalium and various works by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Aelian and other naturalists.

Built in the Brucheion ( Royal Quarter ) in the style of Aristotle's Lyceum, adjacent to and in service of the Musaeum ( a Greek Temple or " House of Muses ", hence the term " museum "), the library comprised a Peripatos walk, gardens, a room for shared dining, a reading room, lecture halls and meeting rooms.

The Latin term meconium derives from the Greek μήκων, mēkōn, poppy, in reference either to its tarry appearance that may resemble some raw opium preparations, or to Aristotle's belief that it induces sleep in the fetus.

The word politics comes from the Greek word Πολιτικά ( politika ), modeled on Aristotle's " affairs of the city ", the name of his book on governing and governments, which was rendered in English mid-15 century as Latinized " Polettiques ".

Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers as two of the most influential political philosophers.

Catholics charge that modalistic monarchianism has its origin by means of influence in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and Aristotle, who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his concept energeia ( i. e. energy ) called metaphysics.

According to Newton himself and other historians of science, his Principia's first law of motion was the same as Aristotle's counterfactual principle of interminable locomotion in a void stated in Physics 4. 8. 215a19 – 22 and was also endorsed by ancient Greek atomists and others.

As already in Aristotle's definitions, theory is very often contrasted to " practice " ( from Greek praxis, πρᾶξις ) a Greek term for " doing ", which is opposed to theory because pure theory involves no doing apart from itself.

It is the same root that gave rise to Aristotle's Lyceum ( place of the wolf ) in Egypt, which has led to speculations that he may have been a native Egyptian of Roman, Greek, or Hellenized Egyptian descent.

" Some, including drama historian Brian Arkins in his " Heavy Seneca: his Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies ," have also pointed out their Senecan nature, as differentiated from Aristotle's principles and Greek tragedy.

* Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, it marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by Medieval Europe.

The Latin phrase comes from the Greek en archei aiteisthai in Aristotle's Prior Analytics II xvi:

The basic idea can be seen in Aristotle's dictum that there is no scientific knowledge of the individual, where the word used for individual in Greek had the connotation of the idiosyncratic, or wholly isolated occurrence.

Aristotle's work on logic interrelates with his special interest in language, and his work on this area was fundamentally important for the development of the study of language ( logos in Greek means both language and logic reasoning ).

Besides his books on the State, we find quoted various treatises on Education, on Royalty, on the Best State, on Political Morals, and particularly his works on the Laws, one of which, containing a recapitulation of the laws of various barbarian as well as Greek states, was intended to be a companion to Aristotle's outline of Politics, and must have been similar to it.

The idea of the philosopher's beard gained traction when in 155 BCE three philosophers arrived in Rome as Greek diplomats: Carneades, head of the Platonic Academy ; Critolaus of Aristotle's Lyceum ; and the head of the Stoics Diogenes of Babylon.

A Greek manuscript of Aristotle's Biological Works, written in Constantinople in the mid-9th century, and preserved at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is probably the oldest surviving manuscript of texts that founded the science of biology.

Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in Kalam, but this approach was later displaced by ideas from Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy with the rise of the Mu ' tazili philosophers, who highly valued Aristotle's Organon.

The word < nowiki >'</ nowiki > pataphysics is a contracted formation, derived from the Greek, ( ta epi ta metaphysika ); this phrase or expression means " that which is above metaphysics ", and is itself a sly variation on the title of Aristotle's Metaphysics, which in Greek is "" ( ta meta ta physika ).

In Aristotle's works, eudaimonia was ( based on older Greek tradition ) used as the term for the highest human good, and so it is the aim of practical philosophy, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider ( and also experience ) what it really is, and how it can be achieved.

Raphael's derivation of the term is not clear, only describing it as coming from " Aristotle's time ", and is defined as a Ancient Greek word meaning " female servant ", though with unflattering connotations of slavery.

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Averroe did not have at hand a text of Aristotle's Politics, so he wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic instead.

He did not have access to any text of Aristotle's Politics.

He also wrote a number of commentaries on Aristotle, including the first in the West of Posterior Analytics, and one on Aristotle's Physics, which has survived as a loose collection of notes or glosses on the text.

* 20th century-Although the text is still little quoted, it maintains its status, apart from Aristotle's Poetics, as " the most delightful of all the critical works of classical antiquity.

His commentary on Aristotle's De caelo was also influential, eventually eclipsing Buridan's commentary on this text.

In this text, Sloterdijk regards cultures and civilizations as " anthropogenic hothouses ," installations for the cultivation of human beings ; just as we have established wildlife preserves to protect certain animal species, so too ought we to adopt more deliberate policies to ensure the survival of Aristotle's zoon politikon.

For this reason, perhaps, the Menexenus has come under some suspicion of illegitimacy, although Aristotle's invocation of the text on multiple occasions seems to reinforce its authenticity.

For example, the beginning of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is 1094a1, which corresponds to page 1094 of Bekker's edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's works, first column, line 1.

Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai ) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition.

Aristotle's own text in Ackrill's standard English version is:

The question raised at the beginning of the text builds on an idea from Aristotle's earlier work The Physics.

Sophistical Refutations ( Latin: De sophisticis elenchis ) is a text in Aristotle's Organon.

The Posterior Analytics is a text from Aristotle's Organon that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge.

* Greek text with commentary: Aristotle's Metaphysics.