Aristotle

Aristotle (/??r??st?t?l/; Greek: ??????????? [aristot?l??s], Aristot?l?s; 384–322?BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c.?347?BC).