General Index

Andrea Falcon

doi:10.1017/9781009426374.012

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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