Generation of Animals
Aristotle
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium)
Book 1: Sexual Parts, Semen & Sexual Generation
Book 2: Sexes, Embryo Development & Sterility
Book 3: Birds, Fish, Cephalopods, Insects, Bees & Testacea
Book 4: Causes of Sex, Heredity & Teratology
Book 5: Distinction between Necessity and the Final Cause
Charles Darwin wrote: "Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle." (Life and Letters, vol. iii, p. 252) - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards (8 hr 18 min)
Chapters
| Book I 1-5 (715a) | 18:09 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 6-16 (717b) | 22:14 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 17-18 (721a) | 35:22 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 19-20 (726a) | 19:43 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book I 21-23 (729a) | 14:40 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 1 (731b) | 26:27 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 2-3 (735a) | 15:33 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 4-5 (737b) | 28:39 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 6 (741b) | 27:43 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book II 7-8 (745b) | 23:07 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 1 (749a) | 17:42 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 2-3 (752a) | 18:15 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 4-8 (755a) | 20:04 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 9-10 (758a) | 19:00 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book III 11 (761a) | 17:22 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 1 (763b) | 21:34 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 2-3 (766b) | 22:08 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 4 (769b) | 24:13 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 5-7 (773a) | 20:23 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book IV 8-10 (776a) | 13:42 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 1 (778a) | 20:34 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 2-5 (781a) | 27:59 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| Book V 6-8 (785b) | 24:06 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |