On winds /

On winds /

In Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds , Robert Mayhew provides a critical edition of the Greek text with English translation and commentary on the sole Peripatetic treatise devoted specifically to winds, by Aristotle's successor in the Lyceum. This is the first edition of this text to appear in o...

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Main Author: Theophrastus.

Other Authors: Mayhew, Robert.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Ancient Greek

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 147.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

Subjects:

Winds > Early works to 1800.
Winds > Middle East > Early works to 1800.
Meteorology > History > Sources.

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Call Number: QC931

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The text
  • The translation and commentary
  • Aristotle and Theophrastus on the nature of wind
  • The structure of on winds
  • An Aristotelian windrose
  • Abbreviations
  • Sigla
  • Sigla codicum
  • Text and translation
  • Commentary.