biography
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Strato or Straton of Lampsacus
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pronunciation:
[straytoh, strayto
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–c.270 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, the successor to Theophrastus as the third head of the Peripatetic School which Aristotle founded. His writings are lost, but he seems to have worked mainly to revise Aristotle's physical doctrines. He had an original theory about the void, its distribution explaining differences in the weights of objects. He also denied any role to teleological, and hence theological, explanations in nature. |
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