FROM THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUE METEOROLOGY: THE WIND
E. V. Afonasin1,2
1Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Institute of Philosophy and Law, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: эмпирическая наука, погодные явления, Аристотель, Теофраст, Сенека, empirical sciences, weather signs, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Seneca
Abstract
In the first article of a series of studies dedicated to ancient meteorology (Filosofiya nauki, 68 [2016], pp. 101-120) I discussed the method and content of Pseudo-Theophrastus’ On weather signs and translated a short treatise On the location and names of the winds, traditionally included in the Corpus Aristotelicum. In this article, based on Aristotle’s Meteorology, the Meteorology of Theophrastus in Syriac and Arabic Translation and Seneca's Naturales Questiones, I approach various theories, designed in Antiquity for explanation of the origin and development of winds and hurricanes.
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