Open AccessMeteorology: elements and position in the corpus aristotelicum
Author(s) -
Thiago Henrique Rosales Marques
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mediaevalia.textos e estudos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2183-6884
DOI - 10.21747/21836884/med37a1
Subject(s) - position (finance) , relation (database) , point (geometry) , sequence (biology) , computer science , rotation (mathematics) , natural language processing , linguistics , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , data mining , geometry , chemistry , finance , biochemistry , economics
In this paper, I am to present an overview of the theoretical grounds and position of Meteorologicain the corpus Aristotelicum. For that, I expose initially the arguments for the possible dating of the text. In the sequence I consider its relation with other treatises. Thus, I aim to provide support to the discussion concerning the theoretical structure of the text, focusing on the theory of exhalations and rotation of fire and air regions, respectively, material and efficient causes of meteorological phenom-ena. In each case, I point out the difficulties that proceeded from such theories