On the Generation of Animals

work by Aristotle
Also known as: “De generatione animalium”, “Generation of Animals”

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  • Aristotle
    In Aristotle: Travels

    …the Parts of Animals and On the Generation of Animals. Although Aristotle did not claim to have founded the science of zoology, his detailed observations of a wide variety of organisms were quite without precedent. He—or one of his research assistants—must have been gifted with remarkably acute eyesight, since some…

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