Aristotle's biology | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-25

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00:02:36 1 Context
00:02:45 1.1 Aristotle's background
00:03:52 1.2 Aristotelian forms
00:05:45 2 System
00:05:54 2.1 Soul as system
00:07:23 2.2 Processes
00:07:31 2.2.1 Metabolism
00:08:54 2.2.2 Temperature regulation
00:10:24 2.2.3 Information processing
00:11:31 2.2.4 Inheritance
00:12:52 2.2.5 Embryogenesis
00:13:40 3 Method
00:14:30 3.1 Scientific style
00:16:06 3.2 Mechanism and analogy
00:17:04 3.3 Complex causality
00:17:54 3.4 Empirical research
00:19:19 3.5 Classification
00:21:19 3.6 Scale of being
00:22:29 4 Influence
00:22:37 4.1 On Theophrastus
00:23:20 4.2 On Hellenistic medicine
00:23:59 4.3 On Islamic zoology
00:24:56 4.4 On medieval science
00:26:07 4.5 On Renaissance science
00:26:57 4.6 Early Modern rejection
00:27:59 4.7 19th century revival
00:28:57 4.8 20th and 21st century interest
00:30:13 5 Works



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Aristotle's biology is the theory of biology, grounded in systematic observation and collection of data, mainly zoological, embodied in Aristotle's books on the science. Many of his observations were made during his stay on the island of Lesbos, including especially his descriptions of the marine biology of the Pyrrha lagoon, now the Gulf of Kalloni. His theory is based on his concept of form, which derives from but is markedly unlike Plato's theory of Forms.
The theory describes five major biological processes, namely metabolism, temperature regulation, information processing, embryogenesis, and inheritance. Each was defined in some detail, in some cases sufficient to enable modern biologists to create mathematical models of the mechanisms described. Aristotle's method, too, resembled the style of science used by modern biologists when exploring a new area, with systematic data collection, discovery of patterns, and inference of possible causal explanations from these. He did not perform experiments in the modern sense, but made observations of living animals and carried out dissections. He names some 500 species of bird, mammal, and fish; and he distinguishes dozens of insects and other invertebrates. He describes the internal anatomy of over a hundred animals, and dissected around 35 of these.
Aristotle's writings on biology, the first in the history of science, are scattered across several books, forming about a quarter of his writings that have survived. The main biology texts were the History of Animals, Generation of Animals, Movement of Animals, Progression of Animals, Parts of Animals, and On the Soul, as well as the lost drawings of The Anatomies which accompanied the History.
Apart from his pupil, Theophrastus, who wrote a matching Enquiry into Plants, no research of comparable scope was carried out in  ancient Greece, though Hellenistic medicine in Egypt continued Aristotle's inquiry into the mechanisms of the human body. Aristotle's biology was influential in the medieval Islamic world. Translation of Arabic versions and commentaries into Latin brought knowledge of Aristotle back into Western Europe, but the only biological work widely taught in medieval universities was On the Soul. The association of his work with medieval scholasticism, as well as errors in his theories, caused Early Modern scientists such as Galileo and William Harvey to reject Aristotle. Criticism of his errors and secondhand reports continued for centuries. He has found better acceptance among zoologists, and some of his long-derided observations in marine biology have been found in modern times to be true.