Scientific Weather Forecasting In The Middle Ages: The Writings of Al-Kindi: Studies, Editions and Translations of the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Texts (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series)

by Charles Burnett (Editor), Gerrit Bos (Editor), Charles Burnett (Editor), Gerrit Bos (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $296.94

  The first comprehensive treatise on scientific weather-forecasting can be traced to Al-Kindi, a prominent Arab philosopher of mid-ninth-century Baghdad. In two pivotal letters, Al-Kindi draws on Greek, Islamic, and astrological sources, setting them in the context of Aristotelian physics to produce highly advanced treatises on cosmology and meteorology.