TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theophrastus
AU  - Brunschön,Carl Wolfram
AU  - Sider,David
TI  - Theophrastus of Eresus: On Weather Signs
T2  - Philosophia Antiqua Ser.
SN  - 9789047411796
AV  - QC995.T49 2007 
U1  - 551.63 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Meteorology -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Weather forecasting -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1) Predicting the weather -- 2) Writing it down -- 3) Origin of De Signis (preliminary considerations) -- 4) Survey of ancient weather literature -- 5) Structure of De Signis -- 6) The Nature of De Signis -- 7) How accurate are the weather signs -- 8) Authorship reconsidered -- 9) Textual tradition -- 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
N2  - This text and commentary is the first to take account of all the manuscripts and to place the work in its historical and scientific context, as well as the first to describe its manuscript tradition
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