Artetotio's treatiae inom, as the Piystes, {9 actually en Sntroduetion to tha stuiy of nature as a whole: to Physics in ‘the more recent sence, Sntamich ss Ste ais ts to approach the genarai low that govern tho univerce (véich Aristotle had at~ Ausapted in the Do Conla, # trestise on the universe at a vbsle), ‘as woh ae to the study of Lifo An natare, including wan hisses book of the Phyaiee bears on what, In general, the stu ature is sbout, and shat are the easential conlitions of the uoject that to ts own, Book II 12 consemed with the sethod to be followed Sa the study of nabare as well as with ite Lint= vfsioh Ls gradually ostabliahed through practice and ‘nore and sone dependent on the evolution of thet particslor Taranch of setonceschapter x ‘Ta KIND OF scIatcs HERE TO BE STUDIED, St. Tones propares us for the study of kristotle's natural phtlovoply by noane of a general. preface whitch, althoughdaong the studies called soterces, nathenstieal siystes {s\often promanted aa. so ideal in authod and Fndorda tat tho othar depertaonte of the stuy of ratary ‘Dhan ary otter 7 Ghe Nibgelplines! sithout qualification, be means ‘1 has just bom atsted that the propostttens fe rae