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Can someone point to some Greek texts that were translated into Arabic in Byzantium/Constantinople ? I have certainly never heard of one.

Also, can someone point to the actual texts of Aristotle that were preserved by translation into Arabic? This claim has been circulated widely, but apparently all these texts were preserved in the original Greek at Constantinople, and only a small handful of texts have actually survived only in Arabic translations.

The notorious Jagged 85 appears to have been active here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.116.7.68 (talk) 00:12, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, nice article, although I miss (or simply have missed) a plain translation of the term, from Greek "bios", "life" etc. for all those non-greek speakers. My main concern here, though, is to bring in the tale of how the invention of biology as a theory of "life force" was not some random new-agey or religious speculation, but derived from arguments about the very nature of physics itself, specifically on two points: "The notion of a «vital force» sprang out of the need to explain two questions: The apparent asymmetry between cause and effect, and the occurrence of ordering processes. The asymmetry can be observed when adding water to a piece of rock, resulting in wet rock, versus adding water to a seed, resulting in e.g. an oak tree. Here the latter effect, compared to the low-energy cause, has and effect whit a volume of energy that breaches the requirement of energy symmetry in a physical process or chemical reaction. Biological processes also produce order, or alter the distribution of order and disorder, in a manner most physical processes do not." The preceding is my version of notions found in Bernhard Verbeek: «Kultur als kritische Phase der Evolution» in «Biologie und Ethik», ed. E. Engels, Reclam, Stuttgart 1999. Three questions: a) Relevance (which I leave to others to evaluate); b) Better formulation in English (not my first, so leave that to others); and c) whether or not this belongs to this article, or perhaps in an article on Vitalism itself, or some such topic. The reason I present it here, is that the thoughts mentioned above had a great part in establishing the "theory of living things" as a discipline distinct from physics and chemistry, and so is kinda foundational for the 18./19, century emergence of Biology as a separate discipline in the first place. T 84.208.65.62 (talk) 10:02, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Organismal biology has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 February 4 § Organismal biology until a consensus is reached. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 16:27, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]