Minor Biological Works (Parva Naturalia)
by Aristotle · Parva Naturalia
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- c. 350 BCE
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- Greek
- Length
- Short · 100 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1, translated by Jonathan Barnes (ed.)Princeton University Press, 1984The revised Oxford translation of all the short treatises together, following On the Soul.
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A set of short treatises that follow On the Soul and study functions shared by soul and body. They cover the objects of the senses, memory and recollection, sleep and waking, dreams and whether they foretell anything, the causes of long and short life, youth and old age, life and death, and breathing. Together they are Aristotle's physiology and his most concrete account of how perception, memory and life depend on the body.
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