Physical science in the time of Nero

Seneca

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Seneca · 55 chapters

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• PREFACESample
• BOOK I
• I. Meteoric fires—she-goat
• X. Relations and differences of
• XIV. Other celestial fires. “
• III. Parts and material of bodies distinguished. In the
• X. Varieties of density and temperature in the
• XXI. Authorities discarded: independent explanation. A
• XXVII. Different kinds of thunder. The growling and the
• XXXVII. Answer—Fate fixes some things only
• XLI. A kind that stains or discolours. The Etruscan
• ON FORMS OF WATER
• VII. Objections to this argument. Rain does not
• XIV. The Egyptians divide each of the elements into
• III. Origin of hail; why it differs from snow
• IV. Wind arises in two ways—from the interior of the
• IX. Connection of winds with seasons of the year and
• XVIII. The uses of wind and the illustration afforded
• II. We cannot escape death. The hopeless find refuge in
• V. Various explanations of
• XIII. Aristotle and The ophrastus take evaporation to
• XXVI. The nature of the soil composed of muddy
• XXX. The action of the air accounts for all the
• IV. Epigenes explains the Comet as due to a conjunction
• VIII. The course and altitude of Comets render the
• XXIX. Denial of heaviness and slowness of Comets
• Preface
• Book II. he goes on immediately to deal with meteorology,
• I. Scope and relations of Meteorology. The four
• IV. The ory of the elements (= ingredients or first
• Book II. deals with the constitution of the universe,
• BOOK I [METEORS, HALO, RAINBOW, MOCK SUN, Etc.]
• XVII
• BOOK II [THE NATURE OF AIR. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING]
• XLVI
• BOOK III WHICH TREATS OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF WATER
• XXIX
• BOOK IV CONTAINING A DISCUSSION OF SNOW, HAIL, AND RAIN [THE NILE]
• BOOK V WHICH TREATS OF WINDS AND ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENT IN GENERAL
• BOOK VI WHICH TREATS OF EARTHQUAKES
• XXIX
• BOOK VII WHICH TREATS OF COMETS
• Preface
• BOOK I
• BOOK II
• BOOK III
• BOOK IV
• Book VI. (241
• BOOK V
• BOOK VI
• BOOK VII
• Preface
• Book VII. throughout, with
• INDEX TO THE “QUAESTIONES NATURALES”
• FOOTNOTES: