What did Aristotle write his works on? Also were stone tablets use during his time as a source to write on?

Answer 1

Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, poetry, biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government and ethics.

I believe that his works were written on parchment (animal skins) in either a soot/oil ink or a cuttlefish ink.

Answer 2

On papyrus

"Aristotle's manuscripts survived despite their bad condition. Two-hundred and fifty years after they were written, the manuscripts were taken by Sulla to Rome to be edited by Andronicus of Rhodes (Lewis 1974, p. 60). The largest papyrus roll is called the Harris Papyrus . It can now be seen in the British Museum and it dates back to 1200 B.C. The smallest papyrus roll contains epigrams of the Berliner Klassikertexte. Another famous surviving papyrus roll is the Greenfield Papyrus which is a copy of the Book of the Dead (Kenyon 1927, p. 31). In the British Museum, one of the most intact specimens is a Greek papyrus roll from the first century. It is a copy of the Odyssey's third book. The papyrus of Bacchylides survived, however, it is incomplete. The pieces that have survived are intact. Some of these literary texts have been discovered in places that must have served as libraries. For example, many rolls were found in Philodemus's library at Herculaneum, though they are badly charred from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Kenyon 1927, p. 35).

Papyrus codices have also survived, the earliest dating from the second century AD. The best examples of papyrus codices are those that belonged to the churches. These codices, however, were subjected to more destruction because of attacks on the churches (Kenyon 1927, p. 41). The British Museum has a papyrus codex written in the second or third century from the Book of Psalms Genesis (Kenyon 1927, 40). Books II-IV of the Iliad were found on papyrus codices, and here text was written on only one side of each leaf. These codices are probably among the first produced because, like the early papyrus roll, only one side was used for writing. The scribes were probably not aware that they could write on both sides of the leaves. I found the discovery of papyrus codices on an Egyptian mummy quite interesting. Apparently, pieces of torn papyrus codices were used to wrap the body. Some of the pieces of codices were works of Plato and Euripides."

Answer 3

Aristotle (384-322 BCE) wrote his works on Philosophy (metaphysics, medicine, logic).
they were most likely written on Egyptian papyrus.
650: Egyptian papyrus arrives in Greek cities

Unfortunately the original copies of all of Aristotle's writings were destroyed during the burning of the library at Alexandria.

Answer 4

He wrote on a type of paper similar to papyrus; stone was used for official proclamations but not for books.

Answer 5

Sheepskin parchment.