Aristotle (Sir David Ross, ed.)
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 2001 (reprint of 1955 edition).
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Book Number 26272
The Parva Naturalia is Aristotle's collection of treatises regarding 'the phenomena common to soul and body,' including sensation, memory, waking, sleep, and mortality. Here Aristotle gives the earliest formulation of the laws of association which have played a large part in later psychology, and records certain illusions of sense which he seems to have been the first to mention. This edition contains a revised Greek text based on a collation of the most important manuscripts and commentary (in English) by Sir David Ross.