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Aristotle

A Greek philosopher (384–322 BCE) whose writings were foundational to Western science for nearly two millennia. A student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, his works covered logic, physics, and biology. In his *Meteorology*, he noted that water warmed in the sun would cool faster, an early observation of what is now called the [[Mpemba effect|mpemba-effect]], which he attributed to a principle called 'antiperistasis'.

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