Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's method of biological investigation and the first systematic and thorough study of animals, which was unequalled for almost 2,000 years. Show more Melvyn ...

A Bonhams New York auction of Fine Books and Manuscripts at 1 pm on Wednesday (8 June, 2016) afternoon will make compelling viewing for those who value the documents which laid the foundations of ...

What is life? What is a soul? These are some of the questions Greek philosopher Aristotle asked. And we're still asking them today. Aristotle also could be considered the world's first natural ...

EVERY generation of biologist must rediscover Aristotle for itself, to paraphrase Armand Leroi in a BBC documentary, Aristotle’s Lagoon. Four years on, Leroi, a biologist at Imperial College London, ...

The cardiovascular system is the first functional organ system to develop in the vertebrate embryo. Several genetic and epigenetic (vascular branching, pruning and remodeling) mechanisms are involved ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle of Stagirus laid out a landscape of logic, physics, metaphysics, aesthetics, ...

The Gulf of Kalloni on Lesbos. Source: Wikimedia commons/Public domain/NASA. Around 370 BCE, the 13-year-old Aristotle lost both of his parents. When he turned 17, his guardian sent him to study at ...

Professor Armand Leroi visits the Greek island of Lesvos to discover the creatures, places and ideas that inspired Aristotle during his pioneering work in the science of biology. Show more In the 4th ...