Generation of Animals

Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)
Translated by Arthur Platt (1860 - 1925)

Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium)

Book 1: Sexual Parts, Semen & Sexual Generation
Book 2: Sexes, Embryo Development & Sterility
Book 3: Birds, Fish, Cephalopods, Insects, Bees & Testacea
Book 4: Causes of Sex, Heredity & Teratology
Book 5: Distinction between Necessity and the Final Cause

Charles Darwin wrote: "Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle." (Life and Letters, vol. iii, p. 252) - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

Genre(s): Medical, Ancient, Life Sciences

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Book I 1-5 (715a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 02 Book I 6-16 (717b) Geoffrey Edwards
00:22:14
Play 03 Book I 17-18 (721a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 04 Book I 19-20 (726a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 05 Book I 21-23 (729a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 06 Book II 1 (731b) Geoffrey Edwards
00:26:27
Play 07 Book II 2-3 (735a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 08 Book II 4-5 (737b) Geoffrey Edwards
00:28:39
Play 09 Book II 6 (741b) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 10 Book II 7-8 (745b) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 11 Book III 1 (749a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 12 Book III 2-3 (752a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 13 Book III 4-8 (755a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 14 Book III 9-10 (758a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 15 Book III 11 (761a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 16 Book IV 1 (763b) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 17 Book IV 2-3 (766b) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 18 Book IV 4 (769b) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 19 Book IV 5-7 (773a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 20 Book IV 8-10 (776a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 21 Book V 1 (778a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 22 Book V 2-5 (781a) Geoffrey Edwards
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Play 23 Book V 6-8 (785b) Geoffrey Edwards
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