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2-Lloyd (1970) - Aristotles
2-Lloyd (1970) - Aristotles
GREEK SCIENCE
Thales to Aristotle
G. E. R. LLOYD
Senior Tutor of King’s College, Cambridge
1970
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CONTENTS
Diagrams - x
Note on Pronunciation and Acknowledgement xi
Chronological Table XUi-xHi
Preface XV-XVi
And again:
We should approach the investigation of every kind of
animal without being ashamed, since in each one of them
there is something natural and something beautiful. The
absence of chance and the serving of ends are found in the
works of nature especially. And the end, for the sake of
which a thing has been constructed or has come to be,
‘belongs to what is beautiful (645 a 21 ff).
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