Paul Chaveriat The great scientific tragedy: Aristotle Aristotle is often attributed with being the first real contributor to the coming of the scientific revolution. However, Aristotle (and in specific his lack of real experimentation) was actually a direct hindrance of scientific development from 300 BCE until at least 1500 AD. Aristotle’s fundamental belief was that everything could be explained through observation of the world around us. One might say that this is a step in the …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…which dominated so strongly over all others that it prevented many important ideas from being further explored and kept countless more discoveries from ever being made for almost two thousand years. This was Aristotelian physics, which when finally overthrown released such a floodgate of scientific advancement that it was known as the Scientific Revolution. It is hard to imagine where we might be today had someone only broken that barrier long before it eventually was.