Generation of Animals


Lu par Geoffrey Edwards

(4.2 stars; 2 reviews)

Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium)

Book 1: Sexual Parts, Semen & Sexual Generation
Book 2: Sexes, Embryo Development & Sterility
Book 3: Birds, Fish, Cephalopods, Insects, Bees & Testacea
Book 4: Causes of Sex, Heredity & Teratology
Book 5: Distinction between Necessity and the Final Cause

Charles Darwin wrote: "Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle." (Life and Letters, vol. iii, p. 252) - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards (8 hr 18 min)

Chapitres

Book I 1-5 (715a) 18:09 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book I 6-16 (717b) 22:14 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book I 17-18 (721a) 35:22 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book I 19-20 (726a) 19:43 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book I 21-23 (729a) 14:40 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book II 1 (731b) 26:27 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book II 2-3 (735a) 15:33 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book II 4-5 (737b) 28:39 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book II 6 (741b) 27:43 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book II 7-8 (745b) 23:07 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book III 1 (749a) 17:42 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book III 2-3 (752a) 18:15 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book III 4-8 (755a) 20:04 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book III 9-10 (758a) 19:00 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book III 11 (761a) 17:22 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book IV 1 (763b) 21:34 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book IV 2-3 (766b) 22:08 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book IV 4 (769b) 24:13 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book IV 5-7 (773a) 20:23 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book IV 8-10 (776a) 13:42 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book V 1 (778a) 20:34 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book V 2-5 (781a) 27:59 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards
Book V 6-8 (785b) 24:06 Lu par Geoffrey Edwards

Critiques

interesting


(4.5 stars)

interesting about the information shared from BC times. I was impressed by how much research was done in those days that was correct and by some of the misconceptions they came up. The beginnings of science and unfolding of knowledge.