The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia , or De mirabilibus auscultationibus ( On Marvelous Things Heard ), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text and the other a discussion o