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

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Title/Author:	The architecture of the science of living beings :/ Andrea Falcon.
Reminder of title:	Aristotle and Theophrastus on animals and plants /
Author:	Falcon, Andrea,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024).
Subject:	Biology - History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426374
ISBN:	9781009426374 (ebook)

The architecture of the science of living beings : = Aristotle and Theophrastus on animals and plants /
Falcon, Andrea,

The architecture of the science of living beings :Aristotle and Theophrastus on animals and plants /Andrea Falcon. - 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024).

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?

Open Access.

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 theoretically motivated, study of perishable living beings (animals and plants). This is the first sustained attempt to explore how Aristotle and Theophrastus envisioned this study, with attention focused primarily on its deep structure. That entails giving full consideration to a few transitional passages where Aristotle and Theophrastus offer their own description of what they are trying to do. What emerges is a novel, sophisticated, and largely idiosyncratic approach to the topic of life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781009426374 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Aristotle
--Ethics.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Biology
--History.

LC Class. No.: B485 / .F26 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 128

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