Parva Naturalia
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Template:Italic title The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul:
- Sense and Sensibilia (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
- On Memory (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
- On Sleep (or De Somno et Vigilia)
- On Dreams (or De Insomniis)
- On Divination in Sleep (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
- On Length and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)
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Editions
- All the Parva Naturalia
- Aristote: Petits traités d'histoire naturelle (with French translation and brief notes), ed. René Mugnier, Collection Budé, 1953
- Aristotle: Parva Naturalia (with extensive commentary in English), ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford, 1955 (repr. 2000, ISBN 0198141084)
- Aristotelis Parva Naturalia Graece et Latine (with Latin translation and notes), ed. Paul Siwek, Rome: Desclée, 1963
- Multiple treatises
- David Gallop, Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams: A Text and Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1990, ISBN 0-921149-60-3 (On Sleep, On Dreams, and On Divination in Sleep)
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