The treatise "The History of Animals" is the largest in terms of the volume of Aristotle's works (IV in .). before n. e. ) - never published in Russian. It gives an idea of the breadth of Aristotle's theoretical and practical biological views, of his natural philosophy, as well as of the level of scientific knowledge in the ancient era. In the Middle Ages during the Renaissance and later, during the XVII-XVIII centuries, the "History of animals" was the main source for the knowledge of the animal world, its systematics, ecology, etc. d. This work is of considerable importance as a monument of literature, evidence of an important aspect of the application of philosophical concepts of mature antiquity. For humanities professionals and natural scientists. Only a few scientific works can be said that they have not ceased to be read for centuries and millennia, that not only their general ideas, but also the text itself retained its significance, attracted attention, was actively used in epochs far removed from the time when they were written. Especially if we keep in mind scientific works in the proper sense: not scattered fragments and their collections, not chronicles, philosophical dialogues or moral and religious instructions, not purely practical recipes, but positive scientific research. Among them, a unique place is occupied by the History of Animals, written by Aristotle in the 330s BC. e. rather all in Misia or on the nearby islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea . And two thousand years after the creation of the "History of animals" remained the basis of biological knowledge of the entire era, when there was no other term "biology", there was no discipline in any close to the modern sense of the word. Cogda in 1727. Its future founder, Carl Linnaeus, went from his native village to the nearest university town of Lund, in his cottage there was only one book - Aristotle's "History of Animals" .. But almost a century later, Georges Cuvier, the father of modern anatomy, admitted that the more he reread Animal History, the more he admired it. And they read it and they read it.