History of Animals
Encyclopedia
History of Animals is a zoological
natural history
text by Aristotle
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(The Book of Animals).
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
text by Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
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Arabic translation
The Arabic translation of Historia Animalium comprises treatises 1-10 of the Kitāb al-HayawānKitab al-Hayawan (Aristotle)
The Kitāb al-hayawān is an Arabic translation in 19 treatises of the following zoological texts by Aristotle:Historia Animalium : treatises 1-10De Partibus Animalium : treatises 11-14...
(The Book of Animals).
See also
- Historiae animaliumHistoriae animalium (Gesner)Historiae animalium published at Zurich in 1551-58 and 1587, is an encyclopedic work of "an inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gesner, a doctor and professor at the Carolinum, the precursor of the University of Zurich...
, a zoologicalZoologyZoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
natural historyNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
text by Conrad Gesner made 1551 CE to 1558 CE.
External links
- English translation by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- Aristotle's History of Animals : in ten books", translated by Richard Cresswell, Saint John's College, Oxford University, London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862.