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or that have none at all like serpents, move all the same with not less than four
points of motion; for there are four bends in their bodies as they move, or two
bends together with their fins. Bloodless and many footed animals, whether
furnished with wings or feet, move with more than four points of motion; as,
for instance, the dayfly moves with four feet and four wings: and, I may
observe in passing, this creature is exceptional not only in regard to the
duration of its existence, whence it receives its name, but also because though
a quadruped it has wings also.
All animals move alike, four-footed and many-footed; in other words, they
all move cross-corner-wise. And animals in general have two feet in advance;
the crab alone has four.
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Very extensive genera of animals, into which other subdivisions fall, are the
following: one, of birds; one, of fishes; and another, of cetaceans. Now all
these creatures are blooded.
There is another genus of the hard-shell kind, which is called oyster;
another of the soft-shell kind, not as yet designated by a single term, such as
the spiny crawfish and the various kinds of crabs and lobsters; and another of
molluscs, as the two kinds of calamary and the cuttle-fish; that of insects is
different. All these latter creatures are bloodless, and such of them as have
feet have a goodly number of them; and of the insects some have wings as
well as feet.
Of the other animals the genera are not extensive. For in them one species
does not comprehend many species; but in one case, as man, the species is
simple, admitting of no differentiation, while other cases admit of
differentiation, but the forms lack particular designations.
So, for instance, creatures that are qudapedal and unprovided with wings
are blooded without exception, but some of them are viviparous, and some
oviparous. Such as are viviparous are hair-coated, and such as are oviparous
are covered with a kind of tessellated hard substance; and the tessellated bits
of this substance are, as it were, similar in regard to position to a scale.
An animal that is blooded and capable of movement on dry land, but is
naturally unprovided with feet, belongs to the serpent genus; and animals of
this genus are coated with the tessellated horny substance. Serpents in general
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The Complete Aristotle
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- The Complete Aristotle
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- Aristotle
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- ~322 B.C.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156