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Podcast: Classic Audiobook Collection
Episode: Movement & Progression of Animals by Aristotle ~ Full Audiobook [science]
Description: Movement & Progression of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: scienceIn Movement & Progression of Animals, Aristotle takes listeners on a surprisingly modern-sounding voyage into the mechanics and meanings of animal motion. Written more than two millennia ago but pulsing with observational detail, this short book combines careful natural history, anatomical insight and philosophical inquiry as Aristotle classifies different kinds of movement—walking, flying, swimming, crawling—and probes the structures and causes that make them possible, from sinews and limbs to sensation and the animating soul. The audiobook brings his vivid comparisons between fish, birds, insects and land...