pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE LAGOON
HOW ARISTOTLE INVENTED SCIENCE
By: Armand Marie Leroi
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99
Our price: £9.48
Discount:
27% off
You save: £3.51
ISBN 10: 140883622X
ISBN 13: 9781408836224
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 6 available
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 27 August, 2015
Pages: 512
Synopsis: In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time. Author of the Poetics, Politics and Metaphysics, his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist - the first. Aristotle explored the mysteries of the natural world. With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, observed their behaviours and recorded how they lived, fed, and bred. In his great zoological treatise, Historia animalium, he described the mating habits of herons, the sexual incontinence of girls, the stomachs of snails, the sensitivity of sponges, the flippers of seals, the sounds of cicadas, the destructiveness of starfish, the dumbness of the deaf, the flatulence of elephants and the structure of the human heart. And then, in another dozen books, he explained it all. In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He goes to Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them, and explores the Philosopher's deep ideas and inspired guesses - as well as the things that he got wildly wrong. Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and how modern science even now bears the imprint of its inventor.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
By: Bill Bryson
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Science Museum 100 Physics Ideas in 100 Words (Hardback)
By: DK
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Science Museum 100 Maths Ideas in 100 Words (Hardback)
By: DK
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
The Invention of Nature (Paperback)
By: Andrea Wulf
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Our Price : £10.94
more details
On the Origin of Species (Paperback)
By: Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £6.56
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
 science: general issues
 history of science


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket