This program is rebroadcast from September 29, 2014. How Aristotle invented science. The great ancient Greek, and life on Earth. A 1597 map of Lesbos / Mytilene, Greece by Giacomo Franco. (Flickr / ...

EVERY generation of biologist must rediscover Aristotle for itself, to paraphrase Armand Leroi in a BBC documentary, Aristotle’s Lagoon. Four years on, Leroi, a biologist at Imperial College London, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle of Stagirus laid out a landscape of logic, physics, metaphysics, aesthetics, ...

Aristotle, a pivotal ancient Greek thinker, profoundly shaped philosophy, science, and education. His emphasis on observation and logic, alongside contributions to ethics and politics, laid ...

In the spring of 1998 I found myself standing on the stones of the Lyceum of Aristotle in Athens. It was strange to think that for two millennia no-one had stood on this spot and known the ...

I might not be the only reader to omit Armand Marie Leroi’s “The Lagoon” from my list of 2014’s best books. Alone or not, I’d like to make amends now. Subtitled “How Aristotle Invented Science,” the ...

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi argues that Aristotle laid the foundations of modern science. Plus, the Ebola outbreak; Rosetta's rendez-vous with a comet; and taking aspirin to prevent cancer ...

Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle. It contained Ogle’s recent translation of Aristotle’s The Parts of Animals and a ...