Andrea Falcon

The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings

Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus' achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their investigation of life into separate studies of animals and plants at a time when our reliance on these categories is being challenged"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009426343
• ISBN-10: 1009426346
• Artikelnr.: 70680631

Autorenporträt

ANDREA FALCON is Professor Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal) and currently lecturing at the University of Milan). He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many books, with his two most recent co-edited books on Aristotle being: Aristotle's De incessu animalium (Cambridge, 2021) and Aristotle's Generation and Corruption II (Cambridge, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Conventions
Tables
Transliterations
Introduction
1. Aristotle's de anima and the study of perishable living beings
2. Aristotle's parva naturalia and the study of animals and everything that has life
3. Pre-explanatory and explanatory strategies in aristotle's study of animals
4. Theophrastus' history of plants i: the transition from the study of animals to the study of plants
5. Theophrastus on the generation of plants
6. The invention of biology?
Appendix A - Aristotle on plants
Appendix B- Theophrastus on animals
Appendix C- [Aristotle], on plants
References
General Index
Index of Passages.