The Lagoon
How Aristotle Invented Science
A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself. In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He revisits Aristotle's writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he sa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-698-17039-1
- EAN: 9780698170391
- Produktnummer: 17990531
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'733 KB
Über den Autor
Armand Marie Leroi is a professor of evolutionary development biology at Imperial College London. He is the author of Mutants: On the Form, Variety and Errors of theHuman Body, which has been published in eleven languages and won The Guardian's First Book Award in 2003. He is one of the UK's most prominent science media figures.
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