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, ...

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 / ...

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, ...

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 ...

So, last tuesday I explained why (in my humble opinion) the pop diva Beyoncé provided us with a nice example of overlap between Science and Art. In particular, I was thinking that, even though Beyoncé ...

A philosophy expert uses Aristotle's theory to explain the link between high intelligence and mental health struggles.

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 ...

Consider the story of a famous natural scientist. A young man with a keen eye and an inquiring mind, the son of a doctor, was sent away to study in a city of culture. He took his studies with him on a ...