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A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be saidthat he founded science itself. In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotles science. He revisits Aristotles writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotles observations,his deep ideas, his inspired guessesand the things he got wildly wrong.