Armand Marie Leroi

The Lagoon

How Aristotle Invented Science

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The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast treatises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how they lived, fed, and bred. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself.In this luminous book, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He explores Aristotle's obs… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-312798-7
EAN: 9780143127987
Produktnummer: 17866448
Verlag: Penguin Putnam
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 512 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.9 cm x D3.0 cm 521 g
Gewicht: 521

Über den Autor

Armand Marie Leroi is a professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College London. He is also a broadcaster and the author of Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, which has been translated into nine languages and won the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in London.