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outer side. The eyes of most crabs have a similar facility of movement, or
rather, in the crab this facility is developed in a higher degree. (See diagram.)
The lobster is all over grey-coloured, with a mottling of black. Its under or
hinder feet, up to the big feet or claws, are eight in number; then come the big
feet, far larger and flatter at the tips than the same organs in the crawfish; and
these big feet or claws are exceptional in their structure, for the right claw has
the extreme flat surface long and thin, while the left claw has the
corresponding surface thick and round. Each of the two claws, divided at the
end like a pair of jaws, has both below and above a set of teeth: only that in
the right claw they are all small and saw-shaped, while in the left claw those
at the apex are saw-shaped and those within are molar-shaped, these latter
being, in the under part of the cleft claw, four teeth close together, and in the
upper part three teeth, not close together. Both right and left claws have the
upper part mobile, and bring it to bear against the lower one, and both are
curved like bandy-legs, being thereby adapted for apprehension and
constriction. Above the two large claws come two others, covered with hair, a
little underneath the mouth; and underneath these the gill-like formations in
the region of the mouth, hairy and numerous. These organs the animal keeps
in perpetual motion; and the two hairy feet it bends and draws in towards its
mouth. The feet near the mouth are furnished also with delicate outgrowing
appendages. Like the crawfish, the lobster has two teeth, or mandibles, and
above these teeth are its antennae, long, but shorter and finer by far than those
of the crawfish, and then four other antennae similar in shape, but shorter and
finer than the others. Over these antennae come the eyes, small and short, not
large like the eyes of the crawfish. Over the eyes is a peaky rough projection
like a forehead, larger than the same part in the crawfish; in fact, the frontal
part is more pointed and the thorax is much broader in the lobster than in the
crawfish, and the body in general is smoother and more full of flesh. Of the
eight feet, four are bifurcate at the extremities, and four are undivided. The
region of the so-called neck is outwardly divided into five divisions, and
sixthly comes the flattened portion at the end, and this portion has five flaps,
or tail-fins; and the inner or under parts, into which the female drops her
spawn, are four in number and hairy, and on each of the aforesaid parts is a
spine turned outwards, short and straight. The body in general and the region
of the thorax in particular are smooth, not rough as in the crawfish; but on the
large claws the outer portion has larger spines. There is no apparent difference
between the male and female, for they both have one claw, whichever it may
be, larger than the other, and neither male nor female is ever found with both
claws of the same size.
All crustaceans take in water close by the mouth. The crab discharges it,
closing up, as it does so, a small portion of the same, and the crawfish
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The Complete Aristotle
- Title
- The Complete Aristotle
- Author
- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
- Language
- English
- License
- PD
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- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 2328
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Categories
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Table of contents
- 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