On Marvellous Things Heard ( Greek: Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων; Latin: De mirabilibus auscultationibus), often called Mirabilia, [1] is a collection of thematically arranged anecdotes formerly attributed to Aristotle. The material included in the collection mainly deals with the natural world (e.g., plants, animals, minerals, weather, geography). [2] The work consists of 178 chapters and is an example of the paradoxography genre of literature. [3]
According to the revised Oxford translation of The Complete Works of Aristotle this treatise's "spuriousness has never been seriously contested". [4] It was denied by Desiderius Erasmus in his edition of the Corpus Aristotelicum in 1531. [1]
On Marvellous Things Heard was translated into Latin three times during the Middle Ages: first by Bartolomeo da Messina in the 13th century, then in the 14th century by Leontius Pilatus and finally in the 15th century by the humanist Antonio Beccaria . [5] The first edition of the Greek text was an incunabulum printed by Aldo Manuzio in 1497. [6] Four Latin translations appeared in the 16th century based on printed editions (two anonymous, two by Domenico Montesoro and Natale Conti). [7]
On Marvellous Things Heard ( Greek: Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων; Latin: De mirabilibus auscultationibus), often called Mirabilia, [1] is a collection of thematically arranged anecdotes formerly attributed to Aristotle. The material included in the collection mainly deals with the natural world (e.g., plants, animals, minerals, weather, geography). [2] The work consists of 178 chapters and is an example of the paradoxography genre of literature. [3]
According to the revised Oxford translation of The Complete Works of Aristotle this treatise's "spuriousness has never been seriously contested". [4] It was denied by Desiderius Erasmus in his edition of the Corpus Aristotelicum in 1531. [1]
On Marvellous Things Heard was translated into Latin three times during the Middle Ages: first by Bartolomeo da Messina in the 13th century, then in the 14th century by Leontius Pilatus and finally in the 15th century by the humanist Antonio Beccaria . [5] The first edition of the Greek text was an incunabulum printed by Aldo Manuzio in 1497. [6] Four Latin translations appeared in the 16th century based on printed editions (two anonymous, two by Domenico Montesoro and Natale Conti). [7]