{"product_id":"history-of-animals-volume-ii-books-4-6-9780674994829","title":"History of Animals, Volume II: Books 4-6","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInductive zoology.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e Aristotle analyzes \"differences\"--in parts, activities, modes of life, and character--across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes, which are the concern of his other zoological works. Over 500 species of animals are considered: shellfish, insects, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals--including human beings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Books I-IV, Aristotle gives a comparative survey of internal and external body parts, including tissues and fluids, and of sense faculties and voice. Books V-VI study reproductive methods, breeding habits, and embryogenesis as well as some secondary sex differences. In Books VII-IX, Aristotle examines differences among animals in feeding; in habitat, hibernation, migration; in enmities and sociability; in disposition (including differences related to gender) and intelligence. Here too he describes the human reproductive system, conception, pregnancy, and obstetrics. Book X establishes the female's contribution to generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is in three volumes. A full index to all ten books is included in Volume Three. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRelated Volumes: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAristotle's biological corpus includes not only \u003ci\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, but also \u003ci\u003eParts of Animals, Movement of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Progression of Animals, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeneration of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, and significant parts of \u003ci\u003eOn the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParva Naturalia\u003c\/i\u003e. Aristotle's general methodology--\"first we must grasp the differences, then try to discover the causes\" (\u003ci\u003eHA\u003c\/i\u003e 1.6)--is applied to the study of plants by his younger co-worker and heir to his school, Theophrastus: \u003ci\u003eEnquiry into Plants\u003c\/i\u003e studies differences across the plant kingdom, while \u003ci\u003eDe Causis Plantarum\u003c\/i\u003e studies their causes. In the later ancient world, both Pliny's \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e and Aelian's \u003ci\u003eOn the Characteristics of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e draw significantly on Aristotle's biological work. The only work by a classical author at all comparable to Aristotle's treatises on animals is Xenophon's \u003ci\u003eOn Horses\u003c\/i\u003e (included in Volume VII of the Loeb edition of Xenophon).","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45036959826071,"sku":"9780674994829","price":2806.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674994829.webp?v=1769214184","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/history-of-animals-volume-ii-books-4-6-9780674994829","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}