...Physics II he says: Now action is for the sake of an end; therefore the nature of things also is so. Thus if a house, eg, had been a thing made by nature, it...now by art; and if things made by nature were made not only by nature but also by art, they would come to be in the same way as by nature. The one, then,...

...intelligent action is for the sake of an end; therefore the nature of things also is so. Thus if a house. . - had been a thing made by nature, it would have been made in the same way as it is now by art. - -. [which] partly completes what nature cannot bring to a finish, and partly imitates her. . . ....

...nothing interferes. Now action is for the sake of an end; therefore the nature of things also is so. Thus if a house, eg, had been a thing made by nature, it...now by art; and if things made by nature were made not only by nature but also by art, they would come to be in the same way as by nature. The one, then,...

...interferes. Now intelligent action is for the sake of an end; therefore the nature of things also is so. Thus if a house, eg, had been a thing made by nature; it...would come to be in the same way as by nature.... If, therefore, artificial products are for the sake of an end, so clearly also are natural products.......

..."ample. had been a thing ma de by nature. it would have been made in the W3 Y as it i s now by art; an d if things made by nature were made also by art, they would come to be in the same way as by nature . . . generally, art partly completes what nature cannot bring to a finish, and partly imitates her....

...paraphrase are not Aristotle's but Bellori's (see Panofsky 1968, p. 252, n. 34). Aristotle wrote: "Thus if a house, eg, had been a thing made by nature, it...they would come to be in the same way as by nature" (Physica, trans. RP Hardie and RK Gaye in The Works of Aristotle, ed. WD Ross, II, Oxford, 1953, p....