In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive
groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the
land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that
Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of
all time. Author of the Poetics, Politics and Metaphysics, his work
looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a
biologist - the first. Aristotle explored the mysteries of the
natural world. With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he
catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, observed their
behaviours and recorded how they lived, fed, and bred. In his great
zoological treatise, Historia animalium, he described the mating
habits of herons, the sexual incontinence of girls, the stomachs of
snails, the sensitivity of sponges, the flippers of seals, the
sounds of cicadas, the destructiveness of starfish, the dumbness of
the deaf, the flatulence of elephants and the structure of the
human heart. And then, in another dozen books, he explained it all.
In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers
Aristotle's science. He goes to Lesbos to see the creatures that
Aristotle saw, where he saw them, and explores the Philosopher's
deep ideas and inspired guesses - as well as the things that he got
wildly wrong. Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply
intertwined with his philosophical system and how modern science
even now bears the imprint of its inventor.
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