BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. L. Peck's editions (Loeb Classical Library, London and
Cambridge,
Mass.) of Aristotle's Parts of Animals (1955),
Generation of Animals (1953), and Historia Animalium
(1965) contain expository
introduction, English translation
and notes, including a short
bibliography of modern sec-
ondary
literature on ancient Greek biology. E. Lesky, Die
Zeugungs- und Vererbungslehren der Antike und ihr
Nachwirken (Vienna, 1950) describes ancient genetic theo-
ries. O. Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1909-13)
collects
information under each animal. Ernest H. F. Meyer,
Geschichte der Botanik, 4 vols.
(Königsberg, 1854-59) dis-
cusses
authors chronologically from classical times. E. L.
Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, Smithsonian Mis-
cellaneous Collections 54
(Washington, D.C., 1909) and A.
Arber, The Natural
Philosophy of Plant Form, (Cambridge,
1950) analyze Greek
views, especially of Theophrastus.
F. S. Bodenheimer, The History of Biology (London, 1958)
includes English
translations of ancient non-Greek texts.
D. M. BALME
[See also
Atomism; Causation; Chain of Being;
Classification
of the Sciences;
Evolutionism; Genetic
Continuity; God;
Platonism; Stoicism.]