Aristotle and the Chick Embryo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9665168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | O D Kember, Owen Kember (University of Sierra Leone, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 393-396 |
| Publication date | 1971-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800033528 |
| OpenAlex | W2164314878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
AT Historia Animalium 561 b 27, during the course of his account of chick embryology, Aristotle notes (Bekker's text): . 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
Art · Biology · Zoology · Anatomy · Evolution and Science Education · Embryology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |