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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 »
ISBN-13: 9780710305763
ISBN-10: 0710305761
Publication Date: 8/15/1997
Pages: 560
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Publisher: Kegan Paul
Book Type: Hardcover
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