When I first heard of Aristotle

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I remember when I was in like 5-th grade and I was watching TV for children telling them about Aristotle and Galileo. And confused things in quite a funny way. In Russian the name for someone who is arrested is arestant -- so the ending is different from Aristotle. But since I didn't know that word very well, I thought Aristotle means someone who was arrested. And since they did, in fact, talk about someone arrested -- namely Galeleo -- that reinforced my misconception. So I thought that Aristotle is not the last name but rather its another way of referring to Galileo or someone else who is "on the same side" as Galileo. Which is quite funny actually since, by that version, Aristotle was the one saying the earth revolves around the sun -- or else he wouldn't be Aristotle (e.g. won't get arrested) on the first place

Later on, when I learned that Aristotle was much earlier than Galileo, I was wondering whether they were BOTH arrested by their contemporaries (and later on accepted by their successors). So I was thinking "hmmm its ironic they would arrest Galileo for contradicting someone else whom they used to arrest before". I was also wondering: if Aristotle was arrested too, what was the mainstream position he was contradicting?

On quite a different note, when I learned that Aristotle was so ancient, I was wondering whether he was a human or a monkey -- after all, I learned that mankind evolved from monkeys. I even pictured a scenario where there were some humans some monkeys and Aristotle happened to be a monkey. Or perhaps half-money.

Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 BC, believed the Earth was round. He thought Earth was the center of the universe and that the Sun, Moon, planets, and all the fixed stars revolved around it.

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric, or Sun-centered, system. Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to geocentric models such as the Tychonic system. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. Galileo spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

What was more interesting to me is actually Aristotle's teacher, a person named Plato. One of Plato's works was called "Timaeus and Critias". The work described the Story of Atlantis, a powerful pre-flood nation that existed 11,000 years ago and was shaken by a great earthquake and sunk beneath the sea and forever destroyed.

Plato's own teacher was Socrates.

Socrates was a social gadfly, and social critic, and trouble maker, who actually DID have that in common with Galileo:that he was arrested.

Only with Socrates they went a little beyond just putting him under house arrest. They executed him by forcing him drink poison.

Plato said "Be."
Aristotle said "Do."
Frank Sinatra said "Do Be Do Be Do."