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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“exactly as if Nature were a painter producing a work of art”
Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 6 (743b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
On the order of development: outlines come first, colour and hardness later.
Citation: "exactly as if Nature were a painter producing a work of art" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 6 (743b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q8)
