Parva Naturalia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Parva Naturalia, credited to Aristotle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Parva Naturalia by Aristotle. Translated by William Alexander Hammond Read by Geoffrey Edwards Parva Naturalia [the "short treatises on nature" (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of books by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. The books are as follows: I - On Sensation and the Sensible II - On Memory and Recollection III - On Sleeping and Waking IV - On Dreams V - On Prophecy in Sleep VI - On Longevity and Shortness of Life VII - On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death VIII - On Respiration (Summary Adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Parva Naturalia
• Author credits: Aristotle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 4:28:53

Catalogue topics

• classics
• Aristotle
• Greek
• philosophy
• psychology
• science
• Mind
• Epistemology

Track guide

1. 01 - On Sensation and the Sensible - Chapters 1-2 — 16:07
2. 02 - On Sensation and the Sensible - Chapters 3-4 — 21:38
3. 03 - On Sensation and the Sensible - Chapters 5-6 — 23:12
4. 04 - On Sensation and the Sensible - Chapter 7 — 15:39
5. 05 - On Memory and Recollection - Chapters 1-2 — 26:41
6. 06 - On Sleeping and Waking - Chapters 1-3 — 31:39
7. 07 - On Dreams - Chapters 1-3 — 25:11
8. 08 - On Prophecy in Sleep - Chapters 1-2 — 12:30
9. 09 - On Longevity and Shortness of Life - Chapters 1-6 — 18:19
10. 10 - On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death - Chapters 1-6 — 18:14
11. 11 - On Respiration - Chapters 1-4 — 12:06
12. 12 - On Respiration - Chapters 5-9 — 16:54
13. 13 - On Respiration - Chapters 10-14 — 14:11
14. 14 - On Respiration - Chapters 15-21 — 16:37

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