Aristotle's view of matter

 

Aristotle's view of matter:
Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
believed that all material things are made up of four Primary or elementary substances : fire, air, water, and earth. He also believed that these substances differed in two properties; hot versus cold and dry versus wet. The
primary substances can be represented as the edges of a square, and each one is flanked by their associated properties on the corners of the square. For example, cold and dry are the properties associated with the substance
earth. In Aristotle's philosophy of matter, a piece of wood must contain a lot of earth because he thought that the wood felt cold and dry.