Jean Buridan
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Jean Buridan was an influential 14th‑century French scholastic philosopher.
Iohannes Buridanus
14th-century manuscript of Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De anima.
Aristotle
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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 Peripatet
Jean Buridan
…philosopher. Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle. Buridan sowed the seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia…
Roman copy of a Greek bust of Aristotle
School of Aristotle in Mieza, Macedonia, Greece
"Aristotle tutoring Alexander" (1895) by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Portrait bust of Aristotle; an Imperial Roman (1st or 2nd century AD) copy of a lost bronze sculpture made by Lysippos