Aristotle's encyclopedic description of over 500 animal species — behavior, habitat, anatomy, reproduction — representing the most extensive biological compilation of the ancient world.
Provides the empirical data base for Aristotle's biological philosophy; demonstrates systematic observational method; many observations are accurate enough to have been confirmed by modern biology.
No conceptual lineage found.
No recorded contemporaries.
No recorded minds influenced.
No conceptual posterity found.
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