Physical science in the time of Nero
Seneca
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- PREFACE试读
- 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: