THE LAGOON

Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. A ristotles philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast trea tises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how they lived, fed, and bred. He founded a science. It can even be s aid that he founded science itself.In this luminous book, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotles science. He ex plores Ari...[Read more]