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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (82586)6/22/2000 2:52:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Aristotle IMO was a credulous plagiarist. His astronomy was ridiculous. His literary criticism was conventional. His biology, which is easiest to refute, was filled with errors. He thought human males had more teeth than women. (He was married!). He wrote that dogs lacked muscles in their front legs (only sinew -- he thought the aorta was a sinew ... Obviously he had never dissected a dog and if his students did they were blunderers. He wrote about animals, but never understood the idea of comparative anatomy which is discovered immediately by any serious veterinary student.
The persistence of his mistakes is not his fault. Any scientist recognizes that personalities are never mentioned in discussing scientific questions. Only those who are truly mistaken continue to be associated with their ideas.
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