Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Aristotle
6. ‘Most Natural Among the Functions of Living Things’ 1
7. Method and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima II,4 21
8. Nutrition and Hylomorphism in Aristotle 43
9. The Female Contribution to Generation and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle’s Embryology 63
10. Why do not Animals Grow on Without End? 85
11. Looking for the Formative Power in Aristotle’s Nutritive Soul 101
12. Aristotle and his Medical Precursors on Digestion and Nutrition 127
13. Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life 153
14. Aristotelianism
15. Reading and Sleep in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata XVIII,7 173
16. Dividing an Apple 197
17. Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life? 221
18. Digestive Problems 259
19. Magnetism and Nutrition 285
20. From Food to Elements and Humors 319
21. Standstill or Death 339
22. Antonio Ponce de Santacruz on Nutrition and the Question of Emergence 355
23. Index locorum 379
24. Index rerum 405