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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 ...
The treaty consists of four books whose authenticity has not been questioned, although its chronology is disputed. The consensus in placing it before the Generation of animals and perhaps later to History of animals. There are indications that Aristotle placed this book at the beginning of his biological works. [1]
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.
Page from the Kitāb al-Hayawān by Al-Jahiz.. Kitāb al-Hayawān was known at least indirectly to several important zoographers including Al-Jāhiz (Kitāb al-Hayawān), Al-Mas‘ūdī (Murawwaj al-Dhahab), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (Al-Imtā‘ wa al-Mu’ānasa), Al-Qazwīnī (‘Ajā’ib al-Makhlūqāt), and Al-Damīrī (Hayāt al-Hayawān).
Corpus Aristotelicum table}} is a customizable list of the works by (or attributed to) Aristotle that are known collectively as the Corpus Aristotelicum. Full and partial renderings [ edit ]
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.
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 ...