Meteorology
by Aristotle · Μετεωρολογικά
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- c. 350 BCE
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- Greek
- Length
- Short · 110 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1, translated by Jonathan Barnes (ed.)Princeton University Press, 1984The revised Oxford translation, alongside the Physics and On the Heavens that it presupposes.
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Four books on the phenomena of the region between the earth and the moon. Aristotle explains comets, the Milky Way, rain, hail, wind, rivers, the sea and its saltiness, earthquakes, thunder and lightning as effects of two exhalations, one moist and one dry, drawn up by the sun. Book III treats halos, rainbows and mock suns, and Book IV, possibly by another hand, describes how heat and cold act on compound bodies.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns Meteorology are verified against each program's published list.
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