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Question: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT ARISTOTLE DID!?
umm i have paper due in astronomy about aristotle!.!.

and i have no idea what he did!!


how did he contribute to astronomy!?!? can someone please tell mee

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Aristotle argued that the universe is spherical and finite!. Spherical, because that is the most perfect shape; finite, because it has a center, viz!. the center of the earth, and a body with a center cannot be infinite!. He believed that the earth, too, is a sphere!. It is relatively small compared to the stars, and in contrast to the celestial bodies, always at rest!. For one of his proofs of this latter point, he referred to an empirically testable fact: if the earth were in motion, an observer on it would see the fixed stars as moving, just as he now observes the planets as moving, that is from a stationary earth!. However, since this is not the case, the earth must be at rest!. Www@QuestionHome@Com