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Aristotle's generation of animals : a critical guide /

Generation of Animals' is one of Aristotle's most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilizati...

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Group Author: Falcon, Andrea; Lefebvre, David
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge critical guides
Subjects:
Aristotle. > On the generation of animals
Reproduction
Animals Philosophy
Summary: Generation of Animals' is one of Aristotle's most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilization, embryogenesis, and organogenesis. In this book, international experts present thirteen original essays providing a philosophically and historically informed introduction to this important work. They shed light on the unity and structure of the Generation of Animals, the main theses that Aristotle defend
Item Description: "The majority of the essays collected in this volume originate from papers delivered at the international conference on Aristotle's Generation of Animals that took place in Paris, January 9-11, 2014."
Carrier Form: xv, 289 pages : forms ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.
ISBN: 9781107132931 (hardback) :
1107132932 (hardback)
Index Number: QP251
CLC: B502.233
Call Number: B502.233/A717-13
Contents: Part I: The unity and structure of Aristotle's philosophy and the Generation of Animals Falcon and David Lefebvre -- Part II: The principles of animal generation reconsidered -- Part III: Hybrids, male and female, particular forms, and monsters -- Part IV: Methodology in Aristotle's Generation of Animals.

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