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Questions Concerning Aristotle's "On Animals"
Albert The Great
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Description for Questions Concerning Aristotle's "On Animals"
Hardback. Offers a translation of Aristotle's work. This work criticizes other medieval physicians and natural philosophers - on comparative anatomy, human physiology, sexuality, procreation, and embryology. It is suitable for medievalists and historians of science and culture. It is useful in the classroom as an encyclopedia or handbook of medieval life. Translator(s): Resnick, Irven M.; Kitchell, Kenneth F. Series: Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation S. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 744.
After the Latin translation of Aristotelian works outside the logica vetus began in earnest in twelfth-century Spain, it remained to Scholastic philosophers to assimilate the new materials. Although many individuals commented on the logica nova and on some of Aristotle's books on natural philosophy, Albert the Great is one of only a very few Scholastics to comment on the entire collection of Aristotle's biological works.This text, the "Questions concerning Aristotle's On Animals" ["Quaestiones super de animalibus"], recovered only at the beginning of the twentieth century and never before translated in its entirety, represents Conrad of Austria's report on a series ... Read more
After the Latin translation of Aristotelian works outside the logica vetus began in earnest in twelfth-century Spain, it remained to Scholastic philosophers to assimilate the new materials. Although many individuals commented on the logica nova and on some of Aristotle's books on natural philosophy, Albert the Great is one of only a very few Scholastics to comment on the entire collection of Aristotle's biological works.This text, the "Questions concerning Aristotle's On Animals" ["Quaestiones super de animalibus"], recovered only at the beginning of the twentieth century and never before translated in its entirety, represents Conrad of Austria's report on a series ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Series
Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation S.
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813215198
SKU
V9780813215198
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About Albert The Great
Irven M. Resnick is professor of philosophy and religion, and Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. is professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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