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Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, 1531. First page and initial portrait from Aristotelis' Meteorologicis Commetaria by Agostini Nifo (Venice, 1531). One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. He did, however, believe comets to be meteorological phenomena.