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Encyclopedia entry: Aristotle
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Aristotle
(384–322 BC) was born in Stagira in Chalcidice (northern Greece). His father Nicomachus, a member of the medical guild of the Asclepiadae (who took their name from the healing god Asclepius), was court physician to king Amyntas II of Macedonia, and Aristotle may have spent part of his childhood at the court in Pella. Although his interest in biology may have developed early because of his father's career, there is no evidence that he began systematic study. Asclepiad doctors taught their sons dissection, but Aristotle probably did not receive this training, since both of his parents died when he was extremely young.
2. At the age of 17 he travelled to Athens and entered
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