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General Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2024

Andrea Falcon
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Montréal

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The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings
Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants
, pp. 251 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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General Index

Alexander of Aphrodisias, 4, 35, 40, 87
analogy
and unity, 205, 208
animals and plants, 74, 135, 136, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 158, 171, 176, 180, 183, 207
blooded and bloodless animals, 12, 92, 94, 102, 138
heuristic value, 207
sexual and spontaneous generation, 111
symmetrical and asymmetrical, 206
Anaxagoras, 18
Andronicus of Rhodes, 4, 122
animals
and everything that has life, 48, 53, 54, 66, 70, 73
and plants, 27, 28, 40, 41, 43, 53, 54, 159, 191
and the human being, 12, 38, 39, 84, 87, 88
blooded, 12, 70, 89, 98, 99, 100, 116, 146
bloodless, 70, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 106, 117, 146
crabs, 103, 164
egg-laying and footless, 90
egg-laying and four-footed, 90, 96
fishes, 104
footless, 103
hard-shelled, 94, 105, 158, 212
insects, 93
life-bearing and four-footed, 90, 91, 96
snakes, 86, 90, 103
soft-bodied, 93
soft-shelled, 94
that change color, 218
that swarm, 218
ζῷα, 5, 20, 24, 25, 30
Antiochus of Ascalon, 3
antiperistasis, 180
Ariston of Ceos, 3
Balme, David, 27, 78, 81
biology, 187
Bolton, Robert, 80
Charles, David, 80
Clearchus of Soli, 4
concept
normative versus pre-theoretical, 5, 21, 30, 65, 74, 139, 142
concoction (πέψις), 225
Corcilius, Klaus, 199
Cunningham, Andrew, 2, 188
date-palm, 163
definition
nominal, 140, 153
Democritus, 18, 22
difference (διαφορά), 81, 134
differentiation (διάκρισις), 115
Diogenes of Apollonia, 18, 19, 24
Dionysius (of Chalcedon?), 193
dissections, 85, 135
Drossaart Lulofs, Hendrik J., 221, 222
dualizers, 217
Empedocles, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 118, 139, 166, 171, 179, 213, 224
Eudemus of Rhodes, 4
explanation
and definition, 79, 82
explanatory essentialism, 157, 161
Fazzo, Silvia, 223
first
animals first, and the human being first, 12, 13, 114
first animals, then plants, 9, 41, 58, 63, 124, 127, 130, 147, 153, 159, 194, 200
first what is first, 11, 12, 71, 114, 116, 119, 206
first mixture (κύημα), 112, 165, 166, 171, 211, 213, 214, 224
fructification, 181, 184
generation of animals
first and second, 177
sexual, 108
spontaneous, 110, 111, 158, 168
generation of plants
first and second, 176
from a part, 161, 165
from seed, 160, 167
grafting, 171
modes of, 156, 157, 160, 167, 172, 173
spontaneous, 157, 168, 169, 170
god
as ζῷον, 21, 32
Gotthelf, Allan, 10, 82, 126
gradualism, 27, 148, 204
Grensemann, Hermann, 16
growth
in plants, 174, 176, 180
heat
innate, 11, 72, 145, 162, 200, 201, 202
herbaceous plants, 139
Hermippus of Smyrna, 3, 4, 216
Herzhoff, Bernhard, 223
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 187
inquiry
stages of, 79, 82, 119
King, Richard, 33
knowable
more knowable by nature, 42, 87, 138, 147, 152
more knowable to us, 87
Kullmann, Wolfgang, 27, 78
large kinds (μέγιστα γένη), 90, 91, 92, 140, 167
Lennox, James G., 10, 78, 80, 82, 93
life
ζωή, 33, 192, 193, 195
living beings
perishable and imperishable, 6, 15, 33, 69
ζῷα, 5, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 29, 30, 32
living body
front and back, 67
in animals, 69
in plants, 69
organization, 69, 86, 88, 137
up and down, 68
living, being alive
ζῆν, 22, 25
Lloyd, Goffrey E. R., 10, 27, 30
longevity
and health, 56
in animals, 55, 58, 59
in animals and plants, 55, 60, 63
in plants, 61, 63
in the human being, 59
transgeneric comparisons, 56, 58
Matthews, Gareth, 193
Mayhew, Robert, 210
memory, 50, 51
meteorology, 39, 190, 191
mistletoe, 209, 210, 212
mode of life (βίος)
in animals, 83, 189
in ethics, 189
in plants, 126, 190
in Plato, 189
mouth, 69, 74, 87, 142
mushrooms, 143, 144
nature
does nothing in vain, 96, 104, 160, 185
takes from one place and gives to another, 183
Nicolaus (Nicolaus of Damascus?), 222, 223
nourishment
concocted and unconcocted, 72, 74, 201, 202, 203, 211
nous
and nature, 37, 39
nutritive power
Aristotle, 33, 68, 178, 195, 197, 198, 199
Theophrastus, 150, 177, 178, 179, 183
outline
to speak in, 134, 140, 143, 153, 162, 163
parts of animals
functional, 85, 97
generative, 95, 108, 109
instrumental, 98
internal and external, 84, 85
locomotive, 95
parts of plants
annual, 143
difficulties in the study of, 131
internal and external, 135
non-uniform, 141
uniform, 143, 145
Pellegrin, Pierre, 29
pericarp, 183, 185
Phanias of Eresus, 5
phantasia, 51
philosophy (φιλοσοφία), 125
plants
and self-motion, 23
habitat, 154, 164, 226
δένδρα, 5, 20, 21, 22
ζῷα, 21, 23
φυτά, 5, 20, 24
Plato
and living beings, 22
and plants, 18, 19, 20, 23, 28, 197
and the soul, 15
ζῷον, 28, 31, 192
Protagoras, 19
Ptolemy al-Gharîb, 4
Rashed, Marwan, 4
Regenbogen, Otto, 210
roots, 69, 74
seed (σπέρμα), 111
Senn, Gustav, 209
Sharples, Robert, 216, 218
Shields, Christopher, 29, 194
shrub, 139
soul
and being alive, 28
and natural philosophy, 36
and self-motion, 23
as principle of living beings, 25
as such, 49, 50
common to soul and body, 52
nutritive power of, 70
powers (parts) of, 49, 50
powers of the soul and plane rectilinear figures, 34, 195
sprouting, 175, 176
stomach, 74, 87, 142
Takahashi, Hidemi, 222
Thales, 20, 21, 22
Thodore of Gaza, 27
trees
δένδρα, 5, 21, 139, 144, 154, 167, 171
under-shrub, 139
unity
organic, 43, 86, 101, 152
universal
commensurate, 10, 12, 44, 75, 92, 101, 106
Wilson, Malcolm, 191
wind-eggs, 166
youth and old age, life and death
and respiration, 65

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  • Andrea Falcon, Concordia University, Montréal
  • Book: The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings
  • Online publication: 30 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009426374.012
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