Història dels animals
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- ~130.000 paraules · 633 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAAristòtil. (n.d.). Aristotle's History of Animals [Història dels animals]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/aristotle-s-history-of-animals
- MLAAristòtil. Aristotle's History of Animals [Història dels animals]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/aristotle-s-history-of-animals.
- ChicagoAristòtil. Aristotle's History of Animals [Història dels animals]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/aristotle-s-history-of-animals.
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De què tracta
La recopilacio d'Aristotil del que se sabia i del que ell mateix va observar sobre els animals: el primer tractat de zoologia que s'ha conservat.
Context i història
«Historia» aqui vol dir «indagacio», no relat del passat. El llibre descriu parts, habits, reproduccio, alimentacio i comportament de centenars d'especies, i el metode es el que el fa notable: Aristotil dissecciona, compara i classifica, i quan no ha vist una cosa ho diu o cita qui la hi ha explicat. Hi ha errors —n'hi ha molts, alguns venen de pescadors i criadors que el van informar malament—, i hi ha observacions que no es van tornar a confirmar fins al segle XIX, com la reproduccio del pop o el desenvolupament de l'embrio del pollastre dia a dia. Darwin va escriure que els seus deus de la ciencia eren nens de parvulari al costat del vell Aristotil.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
eats only honey and a few other sweet things, while spiders prey upon flies and there are other animals which feed entirely on fish. Some animals hunt for their food, and some make a store, which others do not. There are also animals which make habitations for themselves, and others which do not. The mole, the mouse, the ant, and the bee, make habitations, but many kinds both of insects and quadrupeds make no dwelling. 12. With regard to situation, some are troglodite, as lizards and serpents, others, as the horse and dog, live upon the surface of the earth. Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground, others do not; some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat, others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame, the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. We may, however, view them in another way, for all the genera that have been tamed are found wild also, as horses, oxen, swine, sheep, goats, and dogs. 13. Some animals utter a loud cry, some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word, in others it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season. Some, as the dove, frequent fields, others, as the hoopoe, live on the mountains; some attach themselves to man, as the pigeon. Some are lascivious, as the partridge and domestic fowl, and others are chaste, as the raven, which rarely cohabits. 14. Again, there are classes of animals furnished with weapons of offence, others with weapons of defence; in the former I include those which are capable of inflicting an injury, or of defending themselves when they are attacked; in the latter those which are provided with some natural protection against injury. 15. Animals also exhibit many differences of disposition.…