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Aristotle and the Chick Embryo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

O. D. Kember
O. D. Kember
Affiliation:
Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone
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Extract

AT Historia Animalium 561b27, during the course of his account of chick embryology, Aristotle notes (Bekker's text):

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D'Arcy Thompson (Oxford, 1910) translated this passage as follows:

About the twentieth day, if you open the egg and touch the chick, it moves inside and chirps, and it is already coming to be covered in down when, after the twentieth day is past, the chick begins to break the shell.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 1971 , pp. 393 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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