Hankinson

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Christian

We must not lose sight of the fact that Aristotle was a man of his time – and for that time he was extraordinarily perspicacious, acute, and advanced.  Whatever their failings as “science” (construed in a 20th century manner), his scientific treatises are among the most remarkable products that the history of natural investigations has ever produced: and anyone who does not appreciate that is spiritually impoverished indeed.

“Science,” in The Cambridge Companion to ARISTOTLE,” Cambridge University Press 1995, pp. 140-167

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