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Author Theophrastus.

Title On weather signs / Theophrastus of Eresus ; edited by David Sider and Carl Wolfram Brunsch?on
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; v. 104
Philosophia antiqua ; v. 104. 0079-1687
Contents PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; TEXT AND TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; APPENDIX [ARISTOTLE] ON THE LOCATIONS AND NAMES OF THE WINDS -- Victor D'Avella; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF IMPORTANT WORDS; GENERAL INDEX; INDEX OF ANCIENT TEXTS CITED
Summary Takes an account of various manuscripts and places the work in its historical and scientific context. This work also lays out the details of the manuscript tradition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and indexes
Notes Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages; commentary in English
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Subject Weather forecasting -- Early works to 1800
Meteorology -- Early works to 1800
NATURE -- Weather.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
Meteorology
Weather forecasting
Weersverwachtingen.
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Sider, David.
Brunschön, Carl Wolfram.
ISBN 9789047411796
904741179X
Other Titles De signis. English & Greek
Theophrastus of Eresus on weather signs