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Excerpt from Aristotle's Researches in Natural Science Aristotle's researches in Natural Science are set forth in a series of his works, some of which have already received a great deal of attention, while the rest have been much neglected. Translations, with or without explanatory notes, of all these works have been produced in English, French, German, or Latin, and separate treatises or papers discussing Aristotle's researches in one or more branches of Natural Science have been published from time to time. Among such treatises and papers may be mentioned J. Muller's Uber den glatten Hai des Aristoteles, &c., Berlin, 1842, a folio volume with six plates, relating, in part, to the placental cartilaginous fishes of Aristotle; J. B. Meyer's Aristoteles Thierkunde, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Zoologie, Physiologic, und alten Philosophic, Berlin, 1855; H. Aubert's Die Cephalopoden des Aristoteles, &c., Lepzig, 1862, 39 pp.; C. J. Sundevall's Die Thierarten des Aristoteles von den Klassen der Saugethiere, Vogel, Reptilien und Insekten, Stockholm, 1863; G. H. Lewes' Aristotle: A Chapter from the History of Science, London, 1864; and Dr. J. Young's paper "On the Malacostraca of Aristotle," published in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1865. There are also several works and papers which incidentally give valuable assistance in the study of Aristotle's researches in Natural Science, e.g. Cuvier and Valenciennes' Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Paris, 1828-49; J. L. Ideler's Meteorologia veterum Gr corum et Romanorum, Berlin, 1832; Spratt and Forbes' Travels in Lycia, &c., London, 1847; Hoffman and Jordan's "Catalogue of the Fishes of Greece, with Notes on the Names now in Use, and those Employed by Classical Authors," published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, for 1892; D'A. W. Thompson's Glossary of Greek Birds, Oxford, 1895; and T. Gill's "Parental Care among Freshwater Fishes," published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1906. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

This collection of groundbreaking new essays show how Aristotle's natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.

In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.

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This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.