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Opuscala is a collection of shorter books that may or may not have been written by Aristotle.
1. On Colours
2. On Things Heard
3. Physiognomonics
4. On Plants
5. On Marvellous Things Heard
6. Mechanics
7. Concerning Indivisible Lines
8. The Situations and Names of Winds
9. On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
(Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/worksaristotle00arisuoft
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No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "On Colours. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"On Colours by Aristotle. Translated by Edward Forster & Thomas Loveday. "
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