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Parts of Animals

AristotleOriginal title Περὶ ζῴων μορίων

Parts of Animals is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It was written around 350 BC. The whole work is roughly a study in animal anatomy and physiology; it aims to provide a scientific understanding of the parts of animals and asks whether these parts were designed or arose by chance.

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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

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Book I, 645a.16
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“We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.”

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Book I, 645a.21
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“The essential nature (concerning the soul) cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest”

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Parva Naturalia 467b.13–16
Parts of Animals

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