Aristotle . DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIUM
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THE
WORKS OF ARISTOTLE
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
UNDER THE EDITORSHIP
OF
J.A. SMITH M.A.
WAYNFLETE PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY
FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE
W.D. ROSS, M.A.
FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE
VOLUME V
DE PARTIBUS ANIMALIUM
BY WILLIAM OGLE
DE MOTU AND DE INCESSU ANIMALIUM
BY A.S.L. FARQUHARSON
DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIUM
BY ARTHUR PLATT



OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1912


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HENRY FORWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON EDINBURGH NEW YORK TORONTO
MELBOURNE AND BOMBAY


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   DE GENERATIONE
ANIMALIUM
BY
ARTHUR PLATT M.A.
PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1910


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HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE



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CONTENTS

   The arrangement of this treatise is somewhat confused and there is much repetition in it. But the following table may give the reader a view of the course of the discussion and of the more important subjects discussed.

   There are four main parts:-


PART I (Books I, II down to 737b24)
General view of the subject

Section I. The generative organs.

II. The generative secretions, and the Aristotelian theory of sex-generation.

III. Miscellaneous, partly developing questions already raised, partly introductory to Part II.

PART II (Book II 737b25 to end of Book III)
Detailed account of generation in the different classes of animals.

PART III (Book IV)
Essays on various questions connected with generation.

PART IV (Book V)
Development after birth, and distinctions between individuals of the same species.

   These four parts are laid out as follows:-


PART I


SECTION I


BOOK I. ch.i. Introduction.

ii. The sexes and sexual parts.

iii. Testes and uterus in different classes of animals.

iv-vii. Male organs in various classes of vertebrates (sanguinea).

viii-xi. Female organs and methods of producing young in the vertebrata.

xii, xiii. Further remarks on the organs of the vertebrata.

xiv-xvi. Generative organs, sexual and spontaneous generation, in the invertebrata.


SECTION II


BOOK I.xvii,xviii. Semen. Criticism of Hippocratic theory of pangenesis.

xix, xx. The catamenia.

xxi, xxii. The Aristotelian theory of sexual generation.

xxiii. Conclusion of this Section.




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SECTION III


BOOK II ch.i. (731b18) Reason for the existence of the sexes.

(732a25) Classification of animals in relation to generation.

(733b23) Development of the embryo. Praeformation and epigenesis.

ii. The nature of semen.

iii. 'Soul' in the semen and the ferilized germ.

iv. (737b8) Note (misplaced?) on various classes of animals.



PART II


BOOK II ch.iv (737b25) Generation in man and other vivipara.

(739b33) Development and nutrition of the embryo

v. Digression on the necessity of fertilization by the male.

vi. Development of the embryo continued.

vii. (745b22) Nutrition of the embryo continued.

(746a29) Hybrids and sterility.

viii. Mules.

BOOK III.ch.i,ii. Birds.

iii-v. Fish.

vi, vii. Miscellaneous observations.

viii. Cephalopoda, &c.

ix. Insects.

x. Bees.

xi. Testacea. Note on the origin of man and quadrupeds.


PART III


BOOK IV.ch.i,ii. Causes of sex in the embryo.

iii. (767a36) Heredity.

(769b10) Teratology.

iv. Teratology continued. Number of young produced at a birth.

v. Superfoetation.

vi. Varying state of development in the young at birth. Regeneration.

vii. Mola uteri.

BOOK IV.ch.viii. Milk.

ix. Why animals are born head foremost.

x. The period of gestation.


PART IV


BOOK V.ch.i. Distinction between characters that exist for a final cause and those that exist by 'Necessity'. Condition of the embryo and of the infant. Differences in the eye. Sight.

ii. Hearing.

iii-v. Hair.

vi. Colours of animals.

vii. The voice.

viii. Teeth.