The Stagirite was the founder of a school, Bacon the teacher and populariser for a nation.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Nevertheless, his temper was distinctly scientific, and if his exact discoveries be limited to observing the effect of oxygen on plant-life, and his actual invention to a particular kind of glass bottle, yet he was an eager student and populariser of the work of Bacon, Galileo, and Harvey; and his laboratories were the nursing grounds of the new experimental philosophy.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
He was not, indeed, the founder of the school of analysis of feeling in the novel, but he was the populariser of it.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury