The architecture of the science of living beings : Aristotle and Theophrastus on animals and plants /

Scholars have paid ample attention to Aristotle's works on animals. By contrast, they have paid little or no attention to Theophrastus' writings on plants. That is unfortunate because there was a shared research project in the early Peripatos which amounted to a systematic, and theoretical...

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Hlavní autor: Falcon, Andrea (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426374
Obsah:
  • Aristotle's De anima and the study of perishable living beings
  • Aristotle's Parva naturalia and the study of animals and everything that has life
  • Pre-explanatory and explanatory strategies in Aristotle's study of animals
  • Theophrastus' history of plants I : the transition from the study of Animals to the study of plants
  • Theophrastus on the generation of plants
  • The invention of biology?