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ANCIENT METEOROLOGY
In antiquity meteorology included the study of the weather, and also
the study of geological, seismological and astronomical phenomena,
such as earthquakes and comets. Ancient Meteorology explores Greek
and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad subject.
Given the importance of farming in ancient society, it is not surpris-
ing that so much was written about the prediction and explanation
of the weather and about how to respond to its cruelties and to its
kindnesses. But meteorology was not just for farmers, and it was not
just a practical matter. Poets, philosophers and physicians were also
interested, and used the subject to raise important questions about
the nature of the world and how we understand it, about the unity
and character of the cosmos, and about the relationship between
meteorology and the divine.
Liba Taub discusses the variety of ancient texts which communi-
cate meteorological and scientific ideas, from Homeric epic and the
didactic poetry of Hesiod, Aratus and Lucretius, to works such as
Aristotle’s Meteorology , the Hippocratic medical treatise on Airs,
Waters, Places and Seneca’s Natural Questions . The range and diversity
of this literature highlights questions of intellectual authority in
antiquity and illustrates the lively engagement of ancient authors
with the work of their predecessors.
Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable and stimulating resource for
classicists and readers interested in the history of science.
Liba Taub is Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the
History of Science, in the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham
College. She is the author of Ptolemy’s Universe: The Natural and
Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy’s Astronomy .
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SCIENCES OF ANTIQUITY
Series Editor: Roger French
Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
University of Cambridge
Sciences of Antiquity is a series designed to cover the subject-matter of
what we call science. The volumes discuss how the ancients saw,
interpreted and handled the natural world, from the elements to the
most complex of living things. Their discussions on these matters
formed a resource for those who later worked on the same topics,
including scientists. The intention of this series is to show what it
was in the aims, expectations, problems and circumstances of the
ancient writers that formed the nature of what they wrote. A conse-
quent purpose is to provide historians with an understanding of the
materials out of which later writers, rather than passively receiving
and transmitting ancient ‘ideas’, constructed their own world-view.
ANCIENT ASTROLOGY
Tamsyn Barton
ANCIENT NATURAL HISTORY
Histories of nature
Roger French
COSMOLOGY IN ANTIQUITY
M.R. Wright
ANCIENT MATHEMATICS
S. Cuomo
ANCIENT METEOROLOGY
Liba Taub
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ANCIENT
METEOROLOGY
Liba Taub
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First published 2003
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 2003 Liba Taub
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in
any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Taub, Liba Chaia, 1954–
Ancient meteorology/Liba Taub.
p. cm. – (Sciences of antiquity)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Meteorology – Greece – History. 2. Meteorology – Rome – History.
3. Science, Ancient. I. Title. II. Series.
QC985.5.G8T38 2003
551.5 ′ 0938 – dc21 2002037044
ISBN 0-203-63428-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0–415–16195–9 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–16196–7 (pbk)
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ISBN 0-203-63767-4 (Adobe eReader Format)

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