In the first full-length study in any modern language dedicated to
the Meteorologica, Malcolm Wilson presents a groundbreaking
interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy. Divided into two
parts, the book first addresses general philosophical and
scientific issues by placing the treatise in a diachronic frame
comprising Aristotle's predecessors and in a synchronic frame
comprising his other physical works. It argues that Aristotle
thought of meteorological phenomena as intermediary or 'dualizing'
between the cosmos as a whole and the manifold world of terrestrial
animals. Engaging with the best current literature on Aristotle's
theories of science and metaphysics, Wilson focuses on issues of
aetiology, teleology and the structure and unity of science. The
second half of the book illustrates Aristotle's principal concerns
in a section-by-section treatment of the meteorological phenomena
and provides solutions to many of the problems that have been
raised since the time of the ancient commentators.
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