Talk:Meteorology (Aristotle)

message: There's more information on this here (search the page for Meteorology), but I didn't want to add too much because I'm not sure about the proper way to handle references.  128.148.123.31 22:22, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The proper way to make references is by Bekker numbers.  The lack of these references in the page you link shows its deficient quality.  I added the reference (339a36-b2) to one quotation.  All quotations should be so referenced (preferably by the person introducing them)! Wareh 18:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's amazing what you'll do when your wife is getting the baby to sleep and the brownies are cooling.  All the passages quoted by this dubiously constructed article now at least have correct Bekker references.  Wareh 23:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How to cite quotes from Aristotle

message: Shouldn't this be "Meteorology (text)"? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 19:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  page name 

message: What's the oldest known surviving text  for this? Faro0485 (talk) 01:48, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dated 

message: We should remove Wang Chong from the related section, this individual appears to be irrelevant to the article subject, his existence occurred hundreds of years after the existence of the article subject. 130.56.92.144 (talk) 23:53, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wang Chong Not Related 

message: Although Aristotle did not focus on the mineral world, he did touch upon the subject in
the course of meteorological and microphysical considerations. In the Meteorologica,4 he
describes the formation of mineral substances5 in terms of subterranean exhalations generated
by solar warmth penetrating the earth’s surface and accumulating at depth. This heat
could reach subterranean moisture and create a moist exhalation, whereas a dry exhalation
was formed by the action of this heat on underground earthy material.6
Aristotle’s physical system considered substances that can exist in both liquid and solid
states to be composed of elemental water or a mixture of the elements earth and water, with
heat or cold serving as the solidifying agents.7 Aristotle saw the fusibility of the metals
as indicative of a liquid component, whereas their erstwhile solidity showed them to also
contain a considerable proportion of elemental earthiness. Thus, the metals were considered
as composite substances, composed generally of “watery” and “earthy” material.
I took this from AMBIX, Vol. 53, No. 1, March 2006, 43–65
© Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 2006 DOI 10.1179/174582306X93183
The Mineral Exhalation Theory of
Metallogenesis in Pre-Modern
Mineral Science
JOHN A. NORRIS
This theory is very important (or was until the 18th century) I hope some one can find the time to add it here.J8079s (talk) 17:23, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aristotle’s Mineral Exhalations 

message: Hello fellow student or scholar. I am here to review the article, and eventually copy-edit the article. I added the banner showing "subject of an educational assignment" at or near the top this talk page. Your introduction seems good. However, I think the phrase "ca 800 CE" might be expanded for clarity, so it could be written "circa 800 BCE" if this is what you really mean to convey to the reader. Also, several photos should be in the article as illustrations of the major points and concepts, or at least one photo should be there to illustrate the overall concept of Aristotle's meteorology. If I'm not mistaken, the big deals missing from the article are any primary sources that can be cited as references, by using the \<ref\> tag (without slashes). If this link to a kind of Meteorology book by Aristle is a viable source from MIT then it could be cited as a reference, again using the \<ref\> tag code. Otherwise, the article generally alright. Petesimon2 (talk) 05:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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message: — Assignment last updated by Cpowers20 (talk) 03:00, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Ancient Greece

message: I think what's missing in this article is something very important which is Aristotle description of the wind flows in book 1 Chapter 13. He describes it like a fluid which we take for granted in today's English language. He many not be the first but his earliest evidence we have it seems:
Εἰσὶ δέ τινες οἵ φασι τὸν καλούμενον ἀέρα κινού- μενον μὲν καὶ ῥέοντα ἄνεμον εἶναι
105.226.56.148 (talk) 13:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wind flow 

message: The article doesn’t discuss whether or not the text we have today is authentic considering the conquest of Egypt. 105.224.251.80 (talk) 06:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text Reliability