Excerpt from Aristotle's Researches in Natural Science A consideration of these and many other similar publica tions seems to show that a single work, re-examining Aristotle's statements, as far as possible by first-hand investigations, and utilizing the results attained by the above-mentioned and other scholars, would fill a gap in Aristotelian literature. The present work is intended to do this, and represents the nature and value of Aristotle's researches in subjects now considered to belong to physical astronomy, meteorology, physical geography, physics, chemistry, geology, botany, anatomy, physiology, embryo logy, and zoology. In those parts of the work relating to his anatomical, embryological, and zoological researches, I have tested his statements, whenever possible, by means of actual dissections of the parts of, and observations on, the animals to which he seems to refer. Throughout this work full references are given to all passages from ancient and modern writers cited. It is hoped that these references will be sufficient to enable the reader to form his own estimate of the statements made or Opinions expressed in the course of the work. 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.

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During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.

V. 1. From Homer to Omar Khayyam.--v. 2. From Rabbi Ben Ezra to Roger Bacon. 2 v.--v. 3. Science and learning in the fourteenth century. 2. v.