Meteorology (Greek: Μετεωρολογικά; Latin: Meteorologica or Meteora) is a treatise by Aristotle. The text discusses what Aristotle believed to have been all the affections common to air and water, and the kinds and parts of the Earth and the affections of its parts.

By Aristotle Written 350 B.C.E Translated by E. W. Webster. Meteorology has been divided into the following sections: Book I [94k] Book II [103k] Book III [52k] Book IV [82k] Download: A 230k text-only version is available for download.

Hence in warm weather the lower parts of the earth are cold and in a frost they are warm. The same thing, we must suppose, happens in the air, so that in the warmer seasons the cold is concentrated by the surrounding heat and causes the cloud to go over into water suddenly.

Jan 8, 2025 · The Greek philosophers had much to say about meteorology, and many who subsequently engaged in weather forecasting no doubt made use of their ideas. Unfortunately, they probably made many bad forecasts, because Aristotle, who was the most influential, did not believe that wind is air in motion. He did believe, however, that west winds are cold ...

It is concerned with events that are natural, though their order is less perfect than that of the first of the elements of bodies. They take place in the region nearest to the motion of the stars. Such are the milky way, and comets, and the movements of meteors.

Aug 31, 2023 · Aratus, Virgil and Pliny identified and collected sets of prognostic weather signs such as animal behaviour and the appearance of the sky. Both traditions formed the basis of weather forecasting in medieval Europe. Anne Lawrence-Mathers examines these learned traditions, drawing on analysis of a vast set of technical treatises.

The practice of weather prognostication by means of empirical rules dates back to two works by Theo phrastus; De ventis (on winds), and De signis tempesta tum (on weather signs).4 These two treatises contain some eighty different signs of rain, forty-five of wind, fifty of storm, twenty-four of fair weather, and seven

This most recent English commented translation of Aristotle’s Metereologica focuses on how Aristotle’s treatise compares with our understanding of meteorology and climate change.

The Aristotelian meteorology of the universities remained largely separated from a variety of popular and learned practices, which focused instead on weather forecasting, on the practical implications of meteorological phenomena, or on their ominous meanings (Martin 2011).

It is the only book dealing with many diverse areas such as astronomy, geometry, optics, geography, seismology, volcanology, chemistry, and today’s aim of meteorology, weather forecasting and is divided into four books.