On winds
By: Theophrastus of Eresus ; [edition, translation and commentary] by Robert Mayhew
Contributors: Mayhew, Robert, editor, translator, writer of added commentary; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Series: Philosophia antiqua -- volume 147; Theophrastus of Eresus: sources for his life, writings, thought and influence; Philosophia antiqua -- v. 147.; Theophrastus of Eresus: sources for his life, writings, thought and influence
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9789004351820
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Winds; Early works to 1800; Meteorology; Sources; History
Other titles: Theophrastus of Eresus: On winds; Oxyrhynchus papyri. 3721.
Description: "In 'Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds', Robert Mayhew provides a critical edition of the Greek text with English translation and commentary on the sole Peripatetic treatise devoted specifically to winds, by Aristotle's successor in the Lyceum. This is the first edition of this text to appear in over forty years, and the first ever to make use not only of the twelve medieval manuscripts but also of the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment of this work (first published in 1986). The lengthy commentary attempts to explain this difficult (and often corrupt) text and its relationship to Aristotle's meteorological theory and scientific methodology."--
Notes: Edited primarily from the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat. Gr. 1302 and from the Oxyrhynchus papyrus 3721.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and indexes.

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages (pages 28-67). Introduction in English. Extensive commentary (pages 68-356) in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The text ; The translation and commentary ; Aristotle and Theophrastus on the nature of wind ; The structure of On winds ; An Aristotelian windrose ; Abbreviations ; Sigla ; Sigla codicum; title: Text and translation; title: Commentary.