On the Parts of Animals

The parts of animals, as Aristotle sees them, not only are of interest in themselves but also provide evidence of the beauty and intricacy of a harmonious natural order. Such are the impressions that emerge most strongly from a reading of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. As Aristotle studied and wrote a......more

Aristóteles dá continuidade ao seu "história dos animais" aqui, mas inicia com um foco mais filosófico do que biológico, diferenciando a sua teoria das 4 causas quando aplicado a seres vivos, em relação à aplicação de coisas inanimadas. Não entendi o motivo de não achar esse livro traduzido, em meio......more

This is a very hard book to rate. In the preface Ogle writes about ‘Parts of Animals’ that ‘the simple Aristotelian has been deterred by a subject-matter, as a rule alien to his tastes’. That is correct for me, where Books 2-4 of this volume are almost purely biology instead of philosophy and as suc......more

In that age, surely this writing is a fascinated one. I dont know if the translation was true or not. But the translator using many modern classification, like genus, crustaceae, chepalopods, etc. If this words already being used in that time, then the ancient people surely has a keen observations a......more