Generation of Animals by Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)

Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium) <br /><br />Book 1: Sexual Parts, Semen & Sexual Generation <br />Book 2: Sexes, Embryo Development & Sterility <br />Book 3: Birds, Fish, Cephalopods, Insects, Bees & Testacea <br />Book 4: Causes of Sex, Heredity & Teratology <br />Book 5: Distinction between Necessity and the Final Cause <br /><br />Charles Darwin wrote: "Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle." (Life and Letters, vol. iii, p. 252) - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards