Zucker, Arnaud
(ed.)
Mayhew, Robert
(ed.)
Hellmann, Oliver
(ed.)
Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
Número de páginas: 356 págs.
Fecha de edición: 13-02-2024
EAN: 9781032651910
ISBN: 978-1-032-65191-0
Precio (sin IVA): 173,84 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 180,79 €
The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text and the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease.