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History of Animals (Historia animalium) — Aristotle

Written work

History of Animals (Historia animalium)

Περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστορίαι

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
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Aristotle's great collection of zoological data: more than five hundred species described by their parts, their way of life, their reproduction, their food and their character. It is not yet a causal explanation but the preliminary inventory of differences that makes one possible. It contains astonishing observations — the development of the chick embryo, the reproduction of the octopus, the placenta of the smooth dogfish — confirmed centuries later, alongside reports from fishermen and hunters he did not check. Many come from the lagoon of Pyrrha on Lesbos.

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Authorship note

A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Ten books: book X is spurious and the authenticity of books VII–IX has been debated. Bekker 486a–638b.

Editions and translations

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English

  • History of Animals, Books VII–X

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 439), 1991

    Translation: D. M. Balme

    ISBN no verificado en catálogo.

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

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  • History of Animals, Books IV–VI

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 438), 1970

    Translation: A. L. Peck

    ISBN 9780674994829

  • History of Animals, Books I–III

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 437), 1965

    Translation: A. L. Peck

    ISBN 9780674994812

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Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

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Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Leroi, Armand Marie. The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. Londres: Bloomsbury, 2014.

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