Monday, 11 May 2015

OUGD505: Brief 2- Covered (Aristotle)

I have found it incredibly difficult to find original copies of this book in the library or large amounts of content from it- however from the library I managed to find this (see below) which was incredibly helpful in understanding the content in English as it is originally greek however it has been well translated across many different languages now. 




However after some searching online I managed to find older versions of this book through libraries and collections of scanned books: Listed below is even a quote from Charles Darwin and many different little extras which I found interesting when researching Aristotle. The age of this book is important as he is highly regarded as shown below by Darwin but also by many other theorists and researchers. The books are now worn as they were written many years ago in around 350BC which is something that could be combined into my work as an interesting element. 




https://archive.org/stream/partsofanimals00aris#page/8/mode/thumb

What needs to be included in my book cover?

Aristotle 
Parts Of Animals
De Partibus Animalium
(on front/spine)


Description on the back:

The De partibus, as well as the other treatises contained in this volume, forms a portion of Aristotle’s zoological works. The foundation of these is the Historia animalium, or Researches about Animals, in nine books in which observations are recorded, and consequent upon this are the treatises in which Aristotle puts forward theories founded upon these observations. An animal is, according to Aristotle, a “concrete entity” made up of “matter” and “form”. Hence, in the De partibus Aristotle treats of the causes on account of which the bodies- the “matter”- of animals are shaped and constructed as they are, in general; in the De incessu he deals specially with the parts that subserve locomotion. In the De anima he proceeds to consider the Soul- the “form” of an animal. In the remaining treatises, of which De motu, included in this volume, is one, he deals with what he calls the functions “common to body and Soul” among which he includes sensation, memory, appetite, pleasure, pain, waking, sleeping, respiration and so forth. This volume contains; Parts Of Animals (De Partibus Animalium), Progression Of Animals (De Incessu Animalium) and Movement Of Animals (De Motu Animalium).

Plus a barcode on the back cover. 

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