Offers a translation of Aristotle's work. This work criticizes other medieval physicians and natural philosophers - on comparative anatomy, human physiology, sexuality, procreation, and embryology. It is suitable for medievalists and historians of science and culture. It is useful in the classroom as an encyclopedia or handbook of medieval life.

After the Latin translation of Aristotelian works outside the logica vetus began in earnest in twelfth-century Spain, it remained to Scholastic philosophers to assimilate the new materials. Although many individuals commented on the logica nova and on some of Aristotles books on natural philosophy, Albert the Great is one of only a very few Scholastics to comment on the entire collection of Aristotles biological works.