The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by LeRoi, Armand Marie

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature Both a...
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Author: Armand Marie LeRoi
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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by LeRoi, Armand Marie

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

€36,03

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

€36,03
Author: Armand Marie LeRoi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature

Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast treatises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how they lived, fed, and bred. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself.

In this luminous book, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He explores Aristotle's observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses--and the things he got wildly wrong. Leroi visits the Aegean island where Aristotle plumbed the secrets of the living world in all its beauty. Modern science still bears the stamp of its founder. The Lagoon reveals that Aristotle was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest.

Author: Armand Marie LeRoi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 12/08/2015
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780143127987


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
Armand Marie Leroi is a professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College London. He is also a broadcaster and the author of Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, which has been translated into nine languages and won the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in London.

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