Angel
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What works have you read, I asked you?Aristotle was wrong about the number of teeth women had, for one; he claimed that they had fewer teeth than men did, and also that they were less possessed of innate shame and self-worth than men (among many other personality traits that Aristotle assumed were purely innate rather than developed). He was one of the earliest proponents of empiricism, but he was comically incorrect in a great many of his conclusions about observations. He assumed that eels randomly grew out of mud, because he could not find testicles in them when he cut them open; he assumed that insects reproduced in much the same manner, randomly spawning out of nature despite provable exceptions to that rule like queen bees that he also observed.
Despite being the most organized of the Greek philosophers, he was laughably incorrect about most of his conclusions. I give him some slack for being wrong about how planets work and the method of gene inheritance in people, but the fact that he lacked a proper method of experimentation shows in his writings.