Aristotle was born c. 384 in Ancient Greece and died c. 322 BC in Chalcis, Greece. Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. He was focused on just about everything: biology, logic, poetry, ethics, zoology, physics, drama, rhetoric, government, economics, psychology, philosophy, etc. He founded a Peripatetic school in Athens called the Lyceum. He had been taught by Plato and mentored Alexander the Great. Aristotle more or less laid the ground work for modern science.