The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
A Hardback edition by Armand Marie Leroi (Aug 28, 2014)
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Short Description: In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years... Read more
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In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work.
Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time. Author of the Poetics, Politics and Metaphysics, his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist - the first.
Aristotle explored the mysteries of the natural world. With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, observed their behaviours and recorded how they lived, fed, and bred. In his great zoological treatise, Historia animalium, he described the mating habits of herons, the sexual incontinence of girls, the stomachs of snails, the sensitivity of sponges, the flippers of seals, the sounds of cicadas, the destructiveness of starfish, the dumbness of the deaf, the flatulence of elephants and the structure of the human heart. And then, in another dozen books, he explained it all.
In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He goes to Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them, and explores the Philosopher's deep ideas and inspired guesses - as well as the things that he got wildly wrong. Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and how modern science even now bears the imprint of its inventor.
The Lagoon Hardback edition by Armand Marie Leroi
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Product Specification
- Author
- Armand Marie Leroi
- ISBN-13
- 9781408836200
- Format
- Hardback,
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date
- Aug 28, 2014
- Pages
- 512
- Product dimensions
- 153 x 234 x 38mm
- Weight
- 860g
Categories
Non-Fiction History, Politics & Philosophy Philosophy History Of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
Non-Fiction History, Politics & Philosophy History History: Earliest Times To Present Day Ancient History: To C 500 CE Classical History / Classical Civilisation
Non-Fiction Science & Medicine Science: General Issues Popular Science
Non-Fiction Science & Medicine Science: General Issues History Of Science
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LoginAuthor Biography

Armand Marie Leroi is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London. He studied in Halifax, Canada, and Irvine, CA, and did post-doctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As well as many technical papers, he is the author of Mutants: On the Form, Variety and Errors of the Human Body (2003), which has been translated into nine languages and won the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in London.