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Now let's get to the reading

Tonight we're returning to the history of animals by Aristotle, written in 10 books,

translated by Richard Cresswell, MA, St. John's College, Oxford.

Published in 1887 by George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Book the First, Chapter 7, in which Aristotle details the parts of the body. These are the principal parts into which the whole body is divided.

The head, neck, trunk, two arms, and two legs.

The whole cavity from the neck to the pudenda is called the trunk.

That part of the head, which is covered with hair, is called the cranium.

The four part of this is called the sensoput.

This is the last formed, being the last bone in the body which becomes hard. The hinder part is the asiput, and between the

asiput and sinceput is the crown of the head.

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