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Aristotle de Animalibus: Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Part Two Books XI-XIV, Parts Of Animals.(Book review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20060901
Author:Tkacz, Michael W.

ARISTOTLE. De animalibus: Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation. Part Two: Books XI-XIV: Parts of Animals. Edited by Aafke M. I. van Oppenraaij. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, vol. 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. xxvi + 589 pp. Cloth, $176.00--Historian of science James G. Lennox has drawn attention to perhaps the most mysterious and remarkable feature of the history of Aristotelian natural philosophy. It is the apparent disappearance of Aristotle's biological research program after Theophrastus and its reappearance some 1500 years later in the work of Albert the Great. ...

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