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  • Düring, I. (1943/1980 repr.), Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium: Critical and Literary Commentaries.

    Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006

  • "Summa itaque ope et alacri Studio has Leges nostras accipite: et vosmet ipsos sic eruditos ostendite, ut Spes vos pulcherrima foveat, toto legitimo Opere perfecto, posse etiam nostram Rem publicam in Partibus ejus vobis credendis gubernari."

    John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

  • He knew that dichotomous classifications were of little use for animals (_De Partibus_, i. 3) and he explicitly and in so many words accepted the principle of all "natural" classification, that affinities must be judged by comparing not one but the sum total of characters.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • In one passage of the _De Partibus_ Aristotle clearly enunciates the principle of the division of labour, afterwards emphasised by H. Milne-Edwards.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The work which gained him greatest reputation was his _De Asse et Partibus_ (1514), a treatise on ancient coins and measures.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • It is written in the books of St Xavier's in Partibus that a report of Kim's progress was forwarded at the end of each term to Colonel Creighton and to Father Victor, from whose hands duly came the money for his schooling.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The great old school of St Xavier's in Partibus, block on block of low white buildings, stands in vast grounds over against the Gumti River, at some distance from the city.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Alcmeon, Democritus, Diogenes of Apollonia, are all credited with anatomical and physiological investigations; and, though Aristotle is said to have belonged to an Asclepiad family, and not improbably owed his taste for anatomical and zoological inquiries to the teachings of his father, the physician Nicomachus, the "Historia Animalium," and the treatise "De Partibus Animalium," are as free from any allusion to medicine as if they had issued from a modern biological laboratory.

    Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Partibus equidem in illis miles unus quinquaginta generat, sortitus more barbaro denas aut amplius uxores.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Partibus equidem in illis miles unus quinquaginta generat, sortitus more barbaro denas aut amplius uxores.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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