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Corcilius rejects the ‘Coope-Morison’ hypothesis, “considering MA 3-5 as a digression from, rather than a preparation for, what follows in ch. 6” (see pp. 299-300, with n. 3).

Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium . Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978). Her stemma is on p. 17; cf. Primavesi’s stemma (p. 133). The same edition of this text appeared in Aristoteles. De motu animalium. Über die Bewegung der Lebewesen. Historisch-kritische Edition des griechischen Textes und philologische Einleitung von O. Primavesi; deutsche Übersetzung, philosophische Einleitung und Kommentar von K. Corcilius (Meiner: Hamburg, 2018). In MA 9, Aristotle continues (from MA 8) the discussion of the location in the body of the ‘psychic’ or ‘psychological’ principle of motion; and in MA 10, he discusses the role of connate pneuma in the motion of animals. These are the topics of Pavel Gregoric’s “The Origin and the Instrument of Animal Motion.” MA 11, the final chapter of the treatise, begins: “It has been stated, then, how animals are moved in voluntary motions, and by what causes.” The rest of the chapter is devoted to involuntary motion (e.g. movements of the heart and penis) and non-voluntary motion (e.g. sleeping, waking, and respiration). This material is examined by Pierre-Marie Morel in “Voluntary or Not? The Physiological Perspective.” Morel concludes ( inter alia) that MA 11 “confirms that, whatever motion we are considering, it is necessary to assume the presence of an internal principle which acts both as an origin and as a destination for the motions the animal engages in.” Leroi, Armand Marie (2014). The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02674-6. For if it always gives way—as it does with the mice on earth, or with people trying to walk on sand—then the thing will not advance.The History of Animals had a powerful influence on zoology for some two thousand years. It continued to be a primary source of knowledge until zoologists in the sixteenth century, such as Conrad Gessner, all influenced by Aristotle, wrote their own studies of the subject. Apabila ingin mendapatkan pembelajaran lebih rinci, pengunjung bisa menggunakan pemandu selama berwisata di Animalium BRIN. Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus, The Letters. Translated by A. R. Benner, F. H. Fobes. 1949. Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 978-0-674-99421-8 Considerable fragments of two other works, On Providence and Divine Manifestations, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the Suda. Twenty "letters from a farmer" after the manner of Alciphron are also attributed to him. [2] The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship (which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI.40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes). Thus conclusions about actual agriculture in the Letters are as likely to evoke Latium as Attica. The fragments have been edited in 1998 by D. Domingo-Foraste, but are not available in English. The Letters are available in the Loeb Classical Library, translated by Allen Rogers Benner and Francis H. Fobes (1949).

Aelian on the Characteristics of Animals, Books I-V (Greek with English translation by A.F. Scholfield, 1950) In MA 1, after announcing the subject matter of MA (described above), Aristotle refers to previous discussions of the first unmoved mover (in Physics VIII and Metaphysics Λ). What is required next, he says, is the application of the need for an unmoved mover “to particular cases, i.e. to perceptible things.” [8] This is the main topic of MA 1. Rapp’s chapter on MA1 (“The Inner Resting Point and the Common Cause of Animal Motion”) is a detailed account of both the preliminary material in MA 1, and the animal’s physical inner resting points (the joints). I found especially useful the comparisons with other Aristotelian works; and, in his excellent laying out of the argument of the second half of the chapter (698a14-b7), I found the discussion of the puzzling (to me at least) geometrical example (a21-24) quite clarifying.Aelian, On Animals. 3 volumes. Translated by A. F. Scholfield. 1958–9. Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 978-0-674-99491-1, ISBN 978-0-674-99493-5, and ISBN 978-0-674-99494-2

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming (1576) and Stanley (1665) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποικίλης Ἱστορίας (Varia Historia ) Chicago, 1995; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus' "Varia Historia", 1997; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library. Voultsiadou, Eleni; Vafidis, Dimitris (1 January 2007). "Marine invertebrate diversity in Aristotle's zoology". Contributions to Zoology. 76 (2): 103–120. doi: 10.1163/18759866-07602004. ISSN 1875-9866. S2CID 55152069.

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This is the second Symposium Aristotelicum volume to include, in addition to interpretive essays, a critical edition of the subject text, and they are two of the finest volumes in the series. [12] I doubt this could be the model for every Symposium Aristotelicum volume, but I do hope some others appear in the future. Campbell, Gordon Lindsay (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press. p.517. ISBN 978-0-19-103515-9. History of Animals ( Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens. It was written in the fourth century BC; Aristotle died in 322 BC. On the Nature of Animals (alternatively "On the Characteristics of Animals"; Ancient Greek: Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος, Perì zṓōn idiótētos; usually cited by its Latin title De Natura Animalium) is a collection, [2] in seventeen books, of brief stories of natural history. Some are included for the moral lessons they convey; others because they are astonishing. Fürst von Lieven, A.; Humar, M. (2008). "A Cladistic Analysis of Aristotle's Animal Groups in the "Historia animalium" ". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 30 (2): 227–262. JSTOR 23334371. PMID 19203017.