Looking at the same information but with different perspectives and at different times can be very helpful because different people have different views and can bring different ideas to the table with different information.
Aristotle categorizes elements as Hot and Dry, Hot and Wet, Cold and Dry, and Cold and Wet. This is also because people thought the basic elements were fire,air,earth, and water and that there was not much else. Lavoisier challenged this claim, found 33 new elements and created the law of conservation. This may be because he was not a professional scientist, it was later in time, and because of where he lived he might have had more resources and data.
Lavoisier and Aristotle looked at essentially the same information but with different perspectives. Lavoisier was a lawyer by trade but his true passion was chemistry. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. Lavoisier and Aristotle were looking at the same information but hundreds of years apart When Aristotle was alive he had his own way of showing what he considered elements. Aristotle passed on his knowledge of the most basic elements on earth (Earth, Fire, Water, Air) and other scientist looked at this information just like Lavoisier did. By the time the information got to Lavoisier it had been passed through many other great minds which led him to have a completely new perspective. By the time Lavoisier began to look at chemistry there were already some new elements we knew of.
I found it difficult to write this essay because we did not have all the true information. Aristotle and Lavoisier both changed their ideas and went beyond the popular belief of the public. Aristotle actually found and thought of five basic elements not four. By coming out and saying this Aristotle went beyond what others had done. Aristotle also wasn't the basis for elements and its possible Indian philosophers came up with the idea first. Aristotle looked at this information differently and found the fifth element aether.
Lavoisier started looking at elements after some had already changed the layout and discovered that there was more to earth, fire, water, air and, aether. When Lavoisier looked at the element's years later there was different technology and ideas already floating around therefore Lavoisier and Aristotle weren't looking at the same information, but they were looking at similar information in different ways which is important.
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