Aristotle's <i>Meteorology</i> in the Arabic World

Lettinck, Paul

doi:10.1484/m.dda-eb.4.00511

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“…'Natural' explanations for earthquakes were based on Aristotelian interpretations explained in his Meteorology (Book II, 7-8) which identified their cause as subterranean winds arising due to the evaporation of underground waters (Lettinck 1999). This reasoning was later transmitted by medieval Arab and Christian philosophers, among them Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Albertus Magnus, and Aquinas, and was widely understood among the literate by the 16 th century.…”

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