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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by [Leroi, Armand Marie]

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A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist

The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself.

In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle’s science. He revisits Aristotle’s writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle’s observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses—and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle’s science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest.

The Lagoon is both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science. And it shows how a philosopher who lived almost two millennia ago still has so much to teach us today.

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File Size: 7171 KB
Print Length: 514 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0143127985
Publisher: Penguin Books; Translation edition (September 25, 2014)
Publication Date: September 25, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00INIXJL8
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Palmcroft

Mr. Leroi, You Have My Heartfelt Thanks!

April 10, 2016

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It gradually dawned on me that the author is, himself, quite brilliant. This descriptive is merited by the mountain of research he has done and the endless series of carefully-wrought insights with which he has suffused this book.

He even constructs feedback loops using Aristotelian elements and homeostatic laws to give the ancient philosopher, no the ancient SCIENTIST, full dignity and respect. The appendices of this book are gloriously fascinating.

The author uses a sly wit to lighten the load as the biological inventory sometimes rains-down, as it must, for the implications of Aristotle's vast work to be made plain to the reader. Once Aristotle's biology is fully-rendered, it is then compared with the assumptions and methods of modern science, and, of course, its theories, the most notable of which being Darwin's on evolution.

This book is a masterpiece. I am not an educated person, I have a more than full-time job and a family, so this book took me a couple of months to work-through, marking pencil in-hand and dictionary at my elbow. Every minute of it was recreation of the most pleasurable kind.

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April 3, 2017

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To me this book is a revelation. Aristotle is known to many scientists as the great originator of observation. But he was never a living person to me before reading this book. Mr. Leroi brings us to Aristotle's hunting grounds, and connects us with his life and and his travails. If you never cared why an environment could be inspiring both as natural history and as a cultural setting, you will from this book. You will think less of Plato and much much more of Aristotle after reading this fascinating exploration of what it means to learn by observation and thinking combined. Most of all, you will DESPERATELY want to visit Greece and settle in with the mussels and cuttlefish. A magical book.

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oldavai

Compilation of Aristotle's researchers.

April 24, 2018

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Just enough information to get one started in Aristotle's pale ontological studies. Descriptions of places is sometime annoying. There is no study that I am aware of that puts Aristotle's studies in one book. This is a start.

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D. Elayne Warren

I'm going through this very slowly, and enjoying each ...

April 16, 2015

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I'm going through this very slowly, and enjoying each chapter on its own. There are some texts that benefit from taking a break, thinking it over, and coming back after doing something else. This is one of those.

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Dr. Larry Vandervert

Aristotle is alive and well at his LAGOON.

March 16, 2018

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Dr. Leroi did a nice job of presenting Aristotle as a living thinker. Very impression style.

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July 16, 2016

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Great book, well researched.

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Peter B Plastrik

Fascinating and detailed account of Aristotle's thinking and approach -- ...

December 29, 2014

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Fascinating and detailed account of Aristotle's thinking and approach -- by a modern scientist honestly wrestling with the difference between the ancient ideas and the current ones.

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michael wilkinson

The outstanding Armand Leroi.

January 31, 2015

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This is without a doubt one of the best works written on Aristotle. Armand Leroi , with spell binding skill delivers you there, at the Lagoon,
watching one ,if not the greatest mind the world has seen,at work, ever so gracefully, intelligently,patiently,seeking on behalf of us all. This
book deserves all the accolades given it. Truly remarkable.

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