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Quotation from Parts of Animals by Aristotle
“The brain, then, tempers the heat and seething of the heart”
Parts of Animals, Book II, Part 7, trans. William Ogle (1911, Oxford)
Aristotle's account of the brain as a cooling organ, a central claim of his heart-centred physiology.
Citation: "The brain, then, tempers the heat and seething of the heart" — Aristotle, Parts of Animals, Book II, Part 7, trans. William Ogle (1911, Oxford). (id aristotle-parts-of-animals-q3)
