okin006  wrote:

> I try to find the picture of the SCALA NATURAE created by Aristote.
> Does anybody knows where i could find it ?
> 
> Please help me.

Aristotle didn't create it, so much as it was reconstructed from various
sources in his writings, especially the Historia Animalium and the
Generatio Animalium.

You can find a nice diagrammatic version specifically of Aristotle's
view on page 40 of 

Singer, Charles Joseph. 1959. A history of biology to about the year
1900: A general introduction to the study of living things. 3rd ed.
London: Abelard-Schuman.

It is in the two previous editions as well.

The term scala naturae was introduced, I think, by Charles Bonnet around
1769, in the _Contemplation de la Nature_. Bonnet's diagram of the scala
naturae will be found in most histories - try Peter Bowler's book:

Bowler, Peter J. 2003. Evolution: the history of an idea. 3rd ,
completely rev. and expand ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.

More information on the scala can be found in the classic work by
Lovejoy, in which the notion was first delineated:

Lovejoy, Arthur O. 1936. The great chain chain of being: a study of the
history of an idea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
-- 
John Wilkins
DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
wilkins.id.au
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