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The science of physics, Aristotle stresses, contains almost all there is to know about the world. Were there no separate forms-entities such as the unmoved mover at the pinnacle of the cosmos-which are without matter and are not part of the physical world, physics would be what Aristotle calls first philosophy ( Metaphysics 6.1, 1026a27-31).

Aristotle's Physics

Politics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive

An overview of Aristotle and a blurb on Poetics

Born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian region of northeastern Greece in the small city of Stagira (whence the moniker 'the Stagirite'), Aristotle was sent to Athens at about the age of seventeen to study in Plato's Academy, then a pre-eminent place of learning in the Greek world.

Another resource :) http://aether.lbl.gov/www/classes/p10/aristotle-physics.html

Physics: Books I to IV The Physics takes its title from the Greek word phusis, which translates more accurately as "the order of nature." The first two books of the Physics are Aristotle's general introduction to the study of nature.

The key term "quintessence" is discussed mostly in the second paragraph.

I am impressed with the scope of what Aristotle could comprehend and tried to study.