Parts of Animals by Aristotle and translated into English by William Ogle is an ancient anatomical text. The book like much of Aristotle is a combination of very accurate elements with things that we with modern science consider completely ridiculous. The work starts by explaining the process of sci

We find here a basic, logical look at the structures of animals. Aristotle refutes Empedocles, that traits are entirely incidental, and Democritus, that shape and color constitute the whole animal. We then read about the classification, that bifurcation will never be sufficient to categorize the dif

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

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

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

Aristotle starts this treatise with the following words:

"Every systematic science, the humblest and the noblest alike, seems to admit of two distinct kinds of proficiency; one of which may be properly called scientific knowledge of the subject, while the other is a kind of educational acquaintance

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

As I don't have much education in Life Science, I was really impressed with this by Aristotle. The more I've read him, the easier it is for me to understand him. Recommended!