Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science. 384 BC – March 2, 322 BC; died at about 62. Alive at the same time as Alexander the Great, Hippocrates, Chanakya, Apelles, and Plato. Wiki link