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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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426374 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?