title: Parva Naturalia
text: # Parva Naturalia
  
  The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works are as follows (with links to online English translations):
  
  | Bekker number | Work | Latin name |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Parva Naturalia ("Little Physical Treatises") | Parva Naturalia ("Little Physical Treatises") |
  | 436a | Sense and Sensibilia | De Sensu et Sensibilibus |
  | 449b | On Memory | De Memoria et Reminiscentia |
  | 453b | On Sleep | De Somno et Vigilia |
  | 458a | On Dreams | De Insomniis |
  | 462b | On Divination in Sleep | De Divinatione per Somnum |
  | 464b | On Length and Shortness of Life | De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae |
  | 467b | On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration | De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione |
  
  ## Editions
  
  ### All the Parva Naturalia
  
  * Aristote: Petits traités d'histoire naturelle (with French translation and brief notes), ed. René Mugnier, Collection Budé, 1953
  * Aristotle: Parva Naturalia (with extensive commentary in English), ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford, 1955 (repr. 2000, ISBN 0-19-814108-4)
  * Aristotelis Parva Naturalia Graece et Latine (with Latin translation and notes), ed. Paul Siwek, Rome: Desclée, 1963
  * Parva Naturalia with On the Motion of Animals, tr. David Bolotin, Mercer University Press, 2021.
  
  ### Multiple treatises
  
  * David Gallop, Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams: A Text and Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1990, ISBN 0-921149-60-3 (On Sleep, On Dreams, and On Divination in Sleep)
  