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Parva Naturalia

Summary

The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short works on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):

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number 		Work Latin name
Parva Naturalia  ("Short Works on Nature")
436a Sense and Sensibilia De Sensu et Sensibilibus
449b On Memory De Memoria et Reminiscentia
453b On Sleep De Somno et Vigilia
458a On Dreams De Insomniis
462b On Divination in Sleep De Divinatione per Somnum
464b On Length and Shortness
of Life 		De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae
467b On Youth, Old Age, Life
and Death, and Respiration 		De Juventute et Senectute, De
Vita et Morte, De Respiratione
 

Editions

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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
  • Parva Naturalia with On the Motion of Animals, tr. David Bolotin, Mercer University Press, 2021.
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)
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  • 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
  •   Parva Naturalia public domain audiobook at LibriVox
  • Annotated French translation by Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire