{"product_id":"history-of-animals-volume-i","title":"History of Animals, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInductive zoology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e Aristotle analyzes “differences”—in parts, activities, modes of life, and character—across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes, which are the concern of his other zoological works. Over 500 species of animals are considered: shellfish, insects, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals—including human beings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Books I–IV, Aristotle gives a comparative survey of internal and external body parts, including tissues and fluids, and of sense faculties and voice. Books V–VI study reproductive methods, breeding habits, and embryogenesis as well as some secondary sex differences. In Books VII–IX, Aristotle examines differences among animals in feeding; in habitat, hibernation, migration; in enmities and sociability; in disposition (including differences related to gender) and intelligence. Here too he describes the human reproductive system, conception, pregnancy, and obstetrics. Book X establishes the female’s contribution to generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is in three volumes. A full index to all ten books is included in Volume Three.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelated Volumes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAristotle’s biological corpus includes not only \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, but also \u003ci\u003eParts of Animals, Movement of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Progression of Animals,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeneration of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, and significant parts of \u003ci\u003eOn the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParva Naturalia\u003c\/i\u003e. Aristotle’s general methodology—“first we must grasp the differences, then try to discover the causes” (\u003ci\u003eHA\u003c\/i\u003e 1.6)—is applied to the study of plants by his younger co-worker and heir to his school, Theophrastus: \u003ci\u003eEnquiry into Plants\u003c\/i\u003e studies differences across the plant kingdom, while \u003ci\u003eDe Causis Plantarum\u003c\/i\u003e studies their causes. In the later ancient world, both Pliny’s \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e and Aelian’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Characteristics of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e draw significantly on Aristotle’s biological work. The only work by a classical author at all comparable to Aristotle’s treatises on animals is Xenophon’s \u003ci\u003eOn Horses\u003c\/i\u003e (included in Volume VII of the Loeb edition of Xenophon).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241692877144,"sku":"9780674994812","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674994812.jpg?v=1778732137","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/history-of-animals-volume-i","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}