History of Animals
Aristotle
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
(Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals")
Book I Grouping of animals and the parts of the human body.
Book II Different parts of red-blooded animals.
Book III Internal organs.
Book IV Animals without blood (invertebrates).
Books V & VI Animal reproduction.
Book VII Human reproduction.
Book VIII Habits (food, migration, health, diseases).
Book IX Social behavior.
Book X Dealing with barrenness in women was excluded from the translation of D'Arcy Thompson for being spurious so the translation of the Clergyman Richard Cresswell (Vicar of Salcombe Regis, Devon) is used instead.
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a biologist, mathematician and classicist who also wrote On Growth and Form which discusses the mathematical patterns and structures formed in plants and animals. (Geoffrey Edwards) (16 hr 39 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 8:10 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 1-3 (486a) | 23:20 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 4-10 (489a) | 24:00 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 11-15 (492a) | 20:36 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 16-17 (494b) | 18:33 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 1 (497b) | 26:41 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 2-11 (501a) | 16:29 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 12-15 (503b) | 21:34 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 16-17 (506b) | 18:05 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 1 (509a) | 15:30 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 2-3 (511b) | 18:49 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 4-7 (514a) | 19:18 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 8-16 (516b) | 21:57 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 17-22 (519b) | 23:48 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 1 (523a) | 13:33 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 2-3 (525a) | 16:21 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 4 (527b) | 16:58 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 5-7 (530a) | 16:24 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 8-9 (532b) | 24:32 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 10-11 (536b) | 12:19 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 1-7 (538b) | 19:21 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 8-13 (541b) | 17:12 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 14-15 (544b) | 23:03 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 16-18 (548a) | 16:04 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 19-20 (550b) | 14:01 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 21-27 (553a) | 15:04 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 28-34 (555b) | 17:00 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 1-2 (558b) | 14:08 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 3-9 (560b) | 21:51 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 10-13 (564b) | 21:46 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 14-17 (568a) | 22:10 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 18-20 (571b) | 22:43 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 21-28 (575a) | 21:20 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VI 29-37 (578b) | 15:16 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VII 1-3 (581a) | 16:21 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VII 4-6 (583b) | 16:30 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VII 7-12 (586a) | 12:56 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 1-2 (588a) | 26:04 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 3-10 (592a) | 24:12 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 11-13 (596b) | 16:36 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 14-20 (599a) | 24:18 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 21-27 (603a) | 13:25 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book VIII 28-30 (605b) | 12:15 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 1-2 (608a) | 17:37 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 3-7 (610b) | 18:04 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 8-14 (613b) | 17:43 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 15-35 (616a) | 23:36 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 36-39 (620a) | 20:55 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 40 (623b) | 27:03 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 41-46 (627b) | 19:44 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IX 47-49B (630b) | 16:50 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book X 1-7 (633b) | 37:00 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |