Generation of Animals

by Aristotle

23 chapters8h 18mEnglish1910

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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

Chapters (23)

1Book I 1-5 (715a)

1089

2Book I 6-16 (717b)

1334

3Book I 17-18 (721a)

2122

4Book I 19-20 (726a)

1183

5Book I 21-23 (729a)

880

6Book II 1 (731b)

1587

7Book II 2-3 (735a)

933

8Book II 4-5 (737b)

1719

9Book II 6 (741b)

1663

10Book II 7-8 (745b)

1387

11Book III 1 (749a)

1062

12Book III 2-3 (752a)

1095

13Book III 4-8 (755a)

1204

14Book III 9-10 (758a)

1140

15Book III 11 (761a)

1042

16Book IV 1 (763b)

1294

17Book IV 2-3 (766b)

1328

18Book IV 4 (769b)

1453

19Book IV 5-7 (773a)

1223

20Book IV 8-10 (776a)

822

21Book V 1 (778a)

1234

22Book V 2-5 (781a)

1679

23Book V 6-8 (785b)

1446

Generation of Animals

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Chapters (23)

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