Parva Naturalia
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The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):
- Sense and Sensibilia (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
- On Memory (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
- On Sleep (or De Somno et Vigilia)
- On Dreams (or De Insomniis)
- On Divination in Sleep (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
- On Length and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)
Editions
- All the Parva Naturalia
- Aristote: Petits traités d'histoire naturelle (with French translation and brief notes), ed. René Mugnier, Collection Budé, 1953
- Aristotle: Parva Naturalia (with extensive commentary in English), ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford, 1955 (repr. 2000, ISBN 0-19-814108-4)
- Aristotelis Parva Naturalia Graece et Latine (with Latin translation and notes), ed. Paul Siwek, Rome: Desclée, 1963
- Multiple treatises
- David Gallop, Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams: A Text and Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1990, ISBN 0-921149-60-3 (On Sleep, On Dreams, and On Divination in Sleep)
External links
- Greek text: Parva Naturalia (Biehl's 1898 Teubner edition); HTML text from HODOI (with concordance) and Mikros apoplous (with Modern Greek translation and notes)
- 1908 English translation by J.I. Beare and G.R.T. Ross (Oxford 1931): archive.org
- 1902 English translation by William Alexander Hammond (1861-1938): Google Books, archive.org, audiobook
- Annotated French translation by Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
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