Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica - Malcolm Wilson

Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica

A More Disorderly Nature

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Buch | Softcover
322 Seiten
2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-61725-4 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
In the first full-length study in English of the Meteorologica, Malcolm Wilson presents a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy by integrating weather phenomena between the universal cosmos as a whole and the microcosmic animals on the earth. The book also provides an invaluable section-by-section analysis of the text.
In the first full-length study in any modern language dedicated to the Meteorologica, Malcolm Wilson presents a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy. Divided into two parts, the book first addresses general philosophical and scientific issues by placing the treatise in a diachronic frame comprising Aristotle's predecessors and in a synchronic frame comprising his other physical works. It argues that Aristotle thought of meteorological phenomena as intermediary or 'dualizing' between the cosmos as a whole and the manifold world of terrestrial animals. Engaging with the best current literature on Aristotle's theories of science and metaphysics, Wilson focuses on issues of aetiology, teleology and the structure and unity of science. The second half of the book illustrates Aristotle's principal concerns in a section-by-section treatment of the meteorological phenomena and provides solutions to many of the problems that have been raised since the time of the ancient commentators.

Malcolm Wilson is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon. He is author of Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science (2000) and numerous articles on ancient philosophy and science.

Introduction; 1. The rebirth of meteorology; 2. From elements to exhalations; 3. The exhalations; 4. The biological method; 5. Teleology in the Meteorologica; 6. Kapnosphere; 7. Condensation and precipitation (1.9-12); 8. Fresh waters (1.13-14); 9. The sea (2.1-3); 10. Winds (2.4-6); 11. Earthquakes and stormy phenomena (2.7-3.1); 12. Reflections (3.2-6); 13. Minerals and metals.

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Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 470 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-107-61725-1 / 1107617251
ISBN-13 978-1-107-61725-4 / 9781107617254
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