ARISTOTLE 



(c) 



Parva naiuralia — 



De moiu ani- 

 malium 



De generatione 

 animalium 



1 book 



5 books 



^ treating of the func- 

 tions " common to 

 body and Soul," and 

 in particular of 

 some special de- 

 partments of ani- 

 mal behaviour. 



The section (6) is necessary to the completeness of 

 the scheme, but as it has given rise to a whole depart- 

 ment of study, it is usually treated apart from the rest. 

 Thus the main bulk of the zoological and biological 

 works may be taken to consist of the three great 

 treatises, Histcria anivialium, De partihus animalium, 

 and De generatione animalium. It was these which, 

 through translations made from the Arabic, were 

 restored to the West by those who revived scientific 

 studies at the beginning of the thirteenth century. 

 Date of The late D'Arcy W. Thompson, in the prefatory 

 '""'w^n.' note to his translation of H.A.,<' wrote : " I think it 

 can be shown that Aristotle's natural history studies 

 were carried on, or mainly carried on, in his middle 

 age, between his two periods of residence at Athens," 

 i.e. in the Troad, in Lesbos and in Macedonia, between 

 the years 347 and 335 : and this view has recently 

 received convincing support from Mr. H. D. P. Lee,*• 

 who bases his argument upon an examination of the 

 place-names in H..A. This is opposed to the view 

 which has been current for some years past,'' that 

 the zoological works belong to a late period in Aris- 

 totle's life, and has important consequences for the 

 reconstruction of Aristotle's philosophical develop- 



• Tfu WorL• of Aristotle translated, vol. iv., Oxford, 1910. 



» C.Q. xlii. (1948), 61 fF. 

 « See W. D. Ross, Aristotle, and W. W. Jaeger, Aristotle. 



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