The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

ISBN-13: 9781408836224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 512 str.

Armand Marie Leroi

Opis

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 2,000 years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time, and his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist who explored the mysteries of the natural world. With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, and observed their behaviour. In 'The Lagoon', Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science.

Recenzje

In elegant, stylish and often witty prose, he probes the near-legendary, almost primeval lagoon which inspired the ancient Greek's Historia animalium and animates it anew with his own incisive observations ... The Lagoon is a heroic, beautiful work in its own right, an enquiring odyssey into unknown nature, and the known world which science has created out of it Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale and The Sea Inside

O autorze

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.