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Author Aristotle, author

Title Generation of animals & history of animals I, parts of animals I / Aristotle ; translated with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Published Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2019]

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Series The new Hackett Aristotle
Aristotle. Works. English (New Hackett Aristotle)
Contents Front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- History of Animals: Book I -- I 1: Parts of animals and how they differ -- species and genera -- differentiae of animals in accord with lives, actions, characters, and parts. -- I 2: Parts for nourishment and excretion. -- I 3: Parts for the emission of seed. -- I 4: Liquid in animals -- blood and blood-vessel. -- I 5: Viviparous, oviparous, and larviparous animals -- feet, fins, and wings. -- I 6: Genera of animals -- simple species
I 7: Parts of the body: the cranium. -- I 8: Forehead and face. -- I 9: Eyebrows and eyes (1). -- I 10: Eyes (2). -- I 11: Ears, nose, tongue. -- I 12: Neck, chest, breasts, nipples. -- I 13: Abdomen and its parts. -- I 14: Other parts. -- I 15: Trunk and limbs -- perceptual parts. -- I 16: Brain, windpipe, lungs, gullet, stomach. -- I 17: Heart and viscera. -- Parts of Animals: Book I -- I 1: The method of inquiry of natural science vs. theoretical science -- necessity and final cause -- natural science and the soul -- varieties of necessity -- essence and substance
I 2: Defining species by dichotomous division of the genus criticized (1). -- I 3: Defining species by dichotomous division of the genus criticized (2) -- the correct way to do it (1). -- I 4: The correct way to divide genera (2). -- I 5: Theology and astronomy vs. natural science -- the method of inquiry of natural science again. -- Generation of Animals: Book I -- I 1: The focus of the treatise -- male and female as starting-points. -- I 2: The sexes and sexual parts. -- I 3: Testes and uterus in different animals. -- I 4: Differences in the spermatic instruments in males (1)
I 5: Differences in the spermatic instruments in males (2). -- I 6: Differences in the spermatic instruments in males (3). -- I 7: Differences in the spermatic instruments in males (4). -- I 8: The uterus -- viviparous vs. oviparous -- complete vs. incomplete eggs. -- I 9: Internally and externally viviparous animals. -- I 10: Internally oviparous and externally viviparous animals. -- I 11: More on the uterus and its placement. -- I 12: Placement of uterus and testes. -- I 13: Excretory and spermatic ducts in females and males. -- I 14: Crustacean copulation. -- I 15: Cephalopod copulation
I 16: Insect copulation -- "spontaneous generation." -- I 17: Do all animals emit seed? Pangenesis. -- I 18: Pangenesis criticized -- what seed is -- residue vs. colliquescence. -- I 19: Semen as a residue of nourishment and blood -- menses as a residue. -- I 20: Menses as impure seed. -- I 21: How male seed is a cause of what comes to be. -- I 22: How the male contributes to generation. -- I 23: Plant reproduction. -- Generation of Animals: Book II -- II 1: Causes of sexual dimorphism -- classification of animals in relation to generation -- development of the embryo
Notes Performationism vs. epigenesis
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Subject Aristotle. On the generation of animals -- Congresses
SUBJECT On the generation of animals (Aristotle) fast (OCoLC)fst01363949
Subject Reproduction -- Congresses
Reproduction.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Reeve, C. D. C., translator
ISBN 1624668291
9781624668296