
Parva Naturalia [the "short treatises on nature" (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of books by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. The books are as follows: <br /><br />I - On Sensation and the Sensible<br />II - On Memory and Recollection <br />III - On Sleeping and Waking <br />IV - On Dreams <br />V - On Prophecy in Sleep <br />VI - On Longevity and Shortness of Life<br />VII - On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death <br />VIII - On Respiration ( Summary Adapted from Wikipedia )