The volume offers a translation and a commentary with a philological and epistemological interpretation of the first two books of Aristotle's Historia animalium. Showing Aristotle's pioneering role in the biological sciences, Stephan Zierlein compares his detailed anatomical descriptions with our contemporary understanding of human anatomy and zoology. The introduction provides an overview of the Historia animalium.

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Stephan Zierlein, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz.