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The '''''Parva Naturalia''''' (a conventional [[Latin]] title first used by [[Giles of Rome]]: "short works 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):
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== 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'')

== External links ==
* Greek text: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xZANAAAAIAAJ Parva Naturalia]'' (Biehl's 1898 [[Teubner]] edition); HTML text from [http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Hodoi/concordances/intro.htm#Aristote HODOI] (with concordance) and [http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/aristotle/mf/mf.htm Mikros apoplous] (with Modern Greek translation and notes)
* 1908 English translation by J.I. Beare and G.R.T. Ross (Oxford 1931): [https://archive.org/details/worksofaristotle03arisuoft archive.org]
* 1902 English translation by William Alexander Hammond (1861-1938): [https://books.google.com/books?id=vaRlTTZZEJgC&pg=PR11 Google Books], [https://archive.org/details/aristotlespsych01arisgoog archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/parva_naturalia_1111_librivox audiobook]
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* [https://books.google.com/books?id=H2FE--nnNGYC Annotated French translation] by [[Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire]]
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