Aristotle on how animals move the De incessu animalium : text, translation, and interpretative essays edited by Andrea Falcon and Stasinos Stavrianeas ; Greek text prepared by Pantelis Golitsis

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falcon, Andrea, editor, translator.

Stavrianeas, Stasinos, 1971- editor, translator.

Golitsis, Pantelis, editor, translator.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De incessu animalium.

Aristotle.

Animal locomotion--Early works to 1800.

Animal locomotion.

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

De incessu animalium (Aristotle).

Genre:

Early works

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourn, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore Cambridge University Press 2021

Language Note:

Critical matter in English; text in English and Ancient Greek, translated from the Ancient Greek. The English translation "is a joint work. Each author translated her or his chapter(s) of the IA. Andrea Falcon revised the entire translation with the goal of making it as uniform as possible"--page 43

Summary:

"The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus but is one of the least studied Aristotelian works both by ancient and modern interpreters. Yet it is a treatise where we can see, with some clarity and detail, Aristotle's methodology at work. This volume contains a new critical edition of the Greek text, an English translation, and nine in-depth interpretative essays. A general introduction that focuses on the explanatory strategies adopted by Aristotle in the De incessu animalium plus a historical essay on the reception of this work in antiquity and beyond open the volume. No other work of this kind has been published in any modern language." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Greek text and translation

De incessu animalium 1-3 : the theoretical framework and the beginning of the actual investigation / Andrea Falcon

De incessu animalium 4 : Aristotle's conception of dimension / Panos Dimas

De incessu animalium 5-6 : the architecture of locomotive bodies / Klaus Corcilius

De incessu animalium 7-8 : number and distribution of feet in animal progression / Stasinos Stavrianeas

De incessu animalium 9 : Aristotle's mathematical kinesiology : th case of bending / Christopher Frey

De incessu animalium 10-11 : flight and two-footedness / Timothy Clarke

De incessu animalium 12-13 : limb-bending and natural teleology / Spyridon Rangos

De incessu animalium 14-15 : teleology across kinds / Sarah Ruth Jansen

De incessu animalium 16-19 : the motion of many-footed animals and cases of peculiar motion in water / Pantelis Golitsis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and indexes

Description based on print version record

Contains:

Container of : Aristotle. De incessu animalium. English (Falcon)

Container of : Aristotle. De incessu animalium. Greek (Golitsis)

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108868228

1108868223

OCLC:

1433229251

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