Air Apparent

Air Apparent
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2000-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226534237

Traces the development of the weather map and its ability to make the atmosphere visible and predictable, and examines the interaction and relationship between technology and weather forecasting.

Aristotle's Meteorology and Its Reception in the Arab World

Aristotle's Meteorology and Its Reception in the Arab World
Author: Paul Lettinck
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789004109339

A survey of what Arabic scholars have written on the subjects treated in Aristotle's "Meteorology." It is investigated how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. Also, two Arabic treatises are edited and translated.