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Author Aristotle.

Title Aristotle's De motu animalium : text with translation, commentary, and interpretive essays / by Martha Craven Nussbaum
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1978

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Description xxiii, 430 pages ; 23 cm
Contents I. Authenticity, text transmission, and manuscripts--II. Text and translation--III. Interpretive essays:--Essay 1. Aristotle on teleological explanation--Essay 2. The De motu animalium and Aristotle's scientific method--Essay 3. The Sumphuton Pneuma and the De Motu animalim's account of soul and body--Essay 4. Practical syllogisms and practical science necessity and the practical-theoretical parallel--Essay 5. The role of Phantasia in Aristotle's explanations of action--IV. Commentary
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 387-400
Notes In English ; includes text of De motu animalium with Greek text and English translation on opposite pages
Subject Aristotle. De motu animalium.
Animal locomotion -- Early works to 1800.
Animal locomotion -- Pre-Linnean works
Animal locomotion.
Motion.
Transmission of texts.
Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
Author Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
LC no. 77072132
ISBN 0691020353
0691072248
Other Titles De motu animalium. English
De motu animalium
De motu animalium