Natural science includes botany, zoology, psychology, meteoralogy, chemistry, physics. (The term I translate as 'natural science' is ‘phusike', often misleadingly transliterated as 'physics'. Aristotle's Physics is a treatise about natural science as such.) Aristotle thinks that the objects of natural science are marked off by two characteristics: they are capable of change or motion (unlike the objects of mathematics) and they exist ‘separately' or in their own right. (The second point will be examined in a later chapter.) The greater part of Aristotle's life was devoted to the study of such objects.
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