Written work
Generation of Animals
Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως
The first treatise on embryology. It analyses sexual and asexual reproduction, the spontaneous generation he admitted for some creatures, and the development of the embryo, which he conceives as epigenesis: the parts are not preformed but formed successively. It ascribes form and motion to the male and matter to the female, a thesis that weighed for centuries on the idea of woman. Book V studies the inheritance of secondary characters such as eye or hair colour.
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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). Five books. Bekker 715a–789b.
Editions and translations
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English
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.
Generation of Animals
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 366), 1942
Translation: A. L. Peck
ISBN 9780674994034
Griego antiguo
Aristotle
Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
The Conscious LibraryAristotelis 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.
Español
Reproducción de los animales
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 201), 1994
Translation: Ester Sánchez
ISBN 9788424916718
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Poetics
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Will · 322
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Book of Causes (Liber de causis) · 850
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
Sources
- Leroi, Armand Marie. The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. Londres: Bloomsbury, 2014.
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