Aristotle's Model

of Universe
Presented by: GROUP 2
ARISTOTL
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 Aristotle
•was a Greek philosopher during the
Classical period in Ancient Greece,
the founder of the Lyceum and the
Peripatetic school of philosophy and
Aristotelian tradition. Along with his
teacher Plato, he has been called the
"Father of Western Philosophy".
•His writings cover many
subjects – including physics,
biology, zoology,
metaphysics, logic, ethics,
aesthetics, poetry, theatre,
music, rhetoric, psychology,
linguistics, economics,
politics and government.
•Aristotle's model placed the
superior planets in order using
their celestial sphere. He
established a geocentric
universe in which the fixed,
spherical Earth is at the
center, surrounded by
concentric celestial spheres of
planets and stars.
•It explains simple
phenomena such as daily rise
and set of celestial objects,
but not the details in longer
time scales. In this model,
The Earth is at the center of
the universe surround by
water, air, fire etc.
•Although he believed the
universe to be finite in size,he
stressed that it exist
unchanged and stating
throughout eternity. Aristotle
definitively established the
four classical elements of fire,
air, water
which were acted by on two
force, gravity ( the tendency of
water and Earth to sink )
And Levity (the tendency of
air and fire to rise). He later
added the fifth element
"Aether" to describe the voids
that fills the universe above
the terrestrial sphere.