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History of Animals (Ancient Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. It was written in sometime between the mid-fourth century BC and Aristotle's ...
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Aristotle (384–322 BC) studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, remaining there for about 20 years.Like Plato, he sought universals in his philosophy, but unlike Plato he backed up his views with detailed and systematic observation, notably of the natural history of the island of Lesbos, where he spent about two years, and the marine life in the seas around it, especially of the Pyrrha lagoon ...
Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It gives details of gait and movement in various kinds of animals, as well as speculating over the structural homologies among living things.
Chapter 1 begins with Aristotle claiming to have already addressed the parts of animals, referencing the author's work of the same name. While this and possibly his other biological works , have addressed three of the four causes pertaining to animals, the final , formal , and material , the efficient cause has yet to be spoken of.
The Egyptian existentialist philosopher Abdel Rahman Badawi edited Treatises 1–10 (Historia Animalium) as Ṭibā‘ al-Ḥayawān [4] and Treatises 11–14 (De Partibus Animalium) as Ajzā al-Ḥayawān. [5] Treatises 15–19 (De Generatione Animalium) first appeared in the Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus series in 1971. [6]
History of Animals: Historia Animalium: 639a Parts of Animals: De Partibus Animalium: 698a Movement of Animals: De Motu Animalium: 704a Progression of Animals: De Incessu Animalium: 715a Generation of Animals: De Generatione Animalium 791a [De Coloribus] 800a [On Things Heard] [De audibilibus] 805a [Physiognomonics] [Physiognomonica] 815a
The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short works on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):