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Aristotle and the Dance of the Bees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2009

B. G. Whttfield
Affiliation:
Eton College

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1958

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References

page 14 note 1 19 May 1956.

page 15 note 1 It is generally accepted that H.A. ix was not the work of Aristotle himself: Klek und Armbruster, Bienenkunde des Altertums i. 3. Any knowledgeable bee-keeper would support this view owing to the difference of approach in the two writers.

page 15 note 2 ‘First Attempts at Animal Ethology in Greek Biology’ in Actes du VII eCongrés d'Histoire de Sciences (Paris, 1953).Google Scholar

page 15 note 3 J.H.S. Ixxv (1955), p. 24.Google Scholar

page 15 note 4 Presumably in an observation hive. Aristotle used a glass cover (according to a fourteenth-century Arabic authority), and Pliny (N.H xi. 49) mentions hives of transparent lantern horn.