Heart and Soul in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals II

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Content, Structure and Method
5. Aristotle’s GA and the Hippocratic Discourse on Generation 15
6. Connections not so obvious: the Historia animalium and De generatione animalium on generation 45
7. Aristotle’s Generation of Animals V as a Coda 67
8. The Way of Gaining Knowledge: Argumentation and Literary Presentation in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 101
9. Aristotle’s Methods for Establishing the Facts Concerning the Female Menses in GA I 19–22 123
10. Analogy in De generatione animalium: its place in explanation 147
11. II. The Role of (Female) Matter and the Embryogenesis
12. Hybrids in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 181
13. Material Persistence in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 209
14. Aristotle on the order of embryonic development and the homonymy principle 233
15. Heart and Soul in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals II 269
16. Refining Method in Zoology: Aristotle on Aging and Generation 319
17. III. Heat, Pneuma and the Male Seed
18. The Role of pneuma in De generatione animalium 343
19. Spontaneous Generation, Plants and Environmental Digestion 367
20. Aristotle’s Explanation of Multiparity 391
21. IV. The Reception of GA
22. Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 421
23. Peripatetic views on generation and reproduction in later texts and contexts 443
24. List of Contributors 469
25. Index locorum 475