Full Idea
Contemplation, as Aristotle understand it, is not research or inquiry, but an activity that ensues on these: an activity that consists in understanding.
Gist of Idea
For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding
Source
Christine M. Korsgaard (Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [1986], 8 'Aristotle')
Book Reference
Korsgaard,Christine M.: 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' [CUP 1996], p.229
A Reaction
Fairly obvious, when you read the last part of 'Ethics', but helpful in grasping Aristotle, because understanding is the objective of 'Posterior Analytics' and 'Metaphysics', so he tells you how to achieve the ideal moral state.
Related Ideas
Idea 543 All men long to understand, as shown by their delight in the senses [Aristotle]
Idea 12038 Translate as 'humans all desire by nature to understand' (not as 'to know') [Aristotle, by Annas]