The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

More than 2,000 years ago, one of the greatest philosophers in the history of Western thought was spending his day on the edge of a lagoon on a Greek island. But rather than speeding through the latest Jilly Cooper like the rest of us, Aristotle's waterside activities turned to considering the natural world, and led to him laying the foundations of biology. Professor Armand Leroi looks at the genius and errors in Aristotle's science in this talk at the Royal Institution.