Generation of Animals

Aristotle

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Genres: Antik Biowissenschaften Medizinisch Sachbücher Philosophie Wissenschaft

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1. Book I 1-5 (715a)
2. Book I 6-16 (717b)
3. Book I 17-18 (721a)
4. Book I 19-20 (726a)
5. Book I 21-23 (729a)
6. Book II 1 (731b)
7. Book II 2-3 (735a)
8. Book II 4-5 (737b)
9. Book II 6 (741b)
10. Book II 7-8 (745b)
11. Book III 1 (749a)
12. Book III 2-3 (752a)
13. Book III 4-8 (755a)
14. Book III 9-10 (758a)
15. Book III 11 (761a)
16. Book IV 1 (763b)
17. Book IV 2-3 (766b)
18. Book IV 4 (769b)
19. Book IV 5-7 (773a)
20. Book IV 8-10 (776a)
21. Book V 1 (778a)
22. Book V 2-5 (781a)
23. Book V 6-8 (785b)

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Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium)

Book 1: Sexual Parts, Semen & Sexual Generation
Book 2: Sexes, Embryo Development & Sterility
Book 3: Birds, Fish, Cephalopods, Insects, Bees & Testacea
Book 4: Causes of Sex, Heredity & Teratology
Book 5: Distinction between Necessity and the Final Cause

Charles Darwin wrote: "Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle." (Life and Letters, vol. iii, p. 252) - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards