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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotleâ€™s founding role in the scientific study of nature
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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. Aristotleâ€™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 Aristotleâ€™s science. He explores Aristotleâ€™s observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guessesâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780143127987
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-12-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143127987

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