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Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages
Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages Author:Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett The first comprehensive treatise on scientific weather-forecasting can be traced to Al-Kindi, a prominent Arab philosopher of mid-ninth-century Baghdad. In two pivotal letters, Al-Kindi draws on Greek, Islamic, and astrological sources, setting them in the context of Aristotelian physics to produce highly advanced treatises on cosmology and mete... more »orology.« less