General Index
abstraction
505, 507
Acrocorinth
241
Adamantius (author of On Winds)
459–461
admixture
69, 415–418, 433
mixture
Aeneas
274, 277–278, 297, 342, 388, 395–398
aeolipile(s)
69–75
aerial perspective
500, 509n46
aether
126, 132–133, 277, 299n30, 331, 342, 442, 447–449, 464n110, 475–477, 479, 482, 483, 485, 495
and fire
473, 476–479, 482–483, 485–487
αἰθήρ and hypekkauma
Aetna (poem)
59, 339, 357–359, 389
Agathocles (Sicilian tyrant)
197
αἰθήρ
113, 114, 116, 118, 474, 476
aether and hypekkauma
Aiolos
64, 69, 70
Albertus, Magnus
518
alchemy
357, 515
allegorical
185, 309n10, 436n2, 437–438, 473
Alps
67, 241n41, 243–244, 246, 540
amēchania
89, 97
ambient environment
135, 139
Anaxagoras
119, 125, 161, 172n22, 357
Andronicus (editor of Aristotle’s works)
128
anemometer(s)
38, 52
anhomoeomeries
130, 138
animal(s)
27, 34, 42, 109, 126, 128, 130, 133, 136, 138–146, 155, 221, 379, 394, 406, 418–422, 425, 428, 443–445, 484, 505, 515, 537
ants
69n27, 167, 170–172
Apollo (deity)
87–88, 96, 196, 282
ἀπομίμησις
181n7
apotheosis
275, 281
apotropaic
85, 87, 91, 94, 96–97
aqueducts
404–405
Aquilo
290, 290n11, 316, 394, 396
Boreas and wind
Aquinas, Thomas
518
Archelaus of Chersonesus
171
Aristarchus
172n22, 220n19, 239n29
Aristotelian
meteorology
68, 346, 412, 423n21, 427–429, 497, 518, 523, 527, 532
philosophy
151, 519, 524–525, 527–528
physics
134, 145–146, 357
tradition
4, 72, 169, 517
biology
Aristotelianism
518, 520
Asclepiodotus
354
Astraios (titan)
442, 446, 449
astrology
60, 187–189, 214, 228–230, 380n46, 382, 508n42, 516–517
astronomer(s)
10, 11, 27, 33n42, 36, 41, 48–49, 64, 153, 214–215, 217–218, 382, 444, 515, 527, 529, 531
astronomical
and meteorological
19, 182, 217, 291–292, 363
bodies
60, 179, 190, 402
climates
393
compendium
18n21, 35
cycle(s)
42, 219
knowledge
383
observatories
531
phenomenon (/-a)
41, 59, 393–394, 406, 501
text(s)
18n21, 48, 381n50
treatise
80
Atabyrius (Rhodes, mountain)
241
Atargatis (deity)
34
Athens
47, 59, 102, 106, 120, 199, 201, 218n15, 437
Athos (mountain)
240, 319
Atlas
18, 439, 449–455, 457, 474, 484–485
atmosphere(s)
15, 32, 38–39, 42, 53–55, 142, 180, 205, 238, 363, 414n10, 417, 493–497, 506–508, 510, 522, 540–541, 543, 546
Earth’s
10, 24, 27, 41, 53, 179, 541, 544
high(er)/ upper
24, 26, 47, 202–203
motion of
43, 50, 544
nerve
503
optical phenomena of
412n3
philosophical potential of
494
physics of
38
science of
542
structure of
52
unstable
46, 539, 545–546
augury
262, 270n24, 272, 275–276, 284–285
Augustus
6, 230n53, 277–279, 281–284
autumn
20, 23, 29–30, 46, 106, 180, 381–382, 387
equinox
236
northerly
24
square
12
Aurora (deity)
48, 394
star, morning
aurora(s/ -ae) (Northern Lights)
47–49, 53, 136, 537, 544, 546
Auster
316, 396
Notus and wind
Aventine
261
axis
Earth
15, 28n34, 33n43
world
439, 449–455, 484–485
Ba‘al Hammon (deity)
196, 197n14
Babylonian
calendar
13
compendium MUL.APIN
13–14, 18n21
constellations
13n12, 34
eclipse observations
215
horoscopes
214
months
14, 226n39, 227n44
numerical techniques
214
text(s)
33, 48, 215, 219, 223, 226, 230
weather prediction
215
Bacon, Francis
519
barometer(s)
38, 496n11, 527–528, 530
Bartholomew of Messina
153
Bebrycia
310
Bible
525, 529
Hebrew
66n14
biology
126, 128–129, 135, 138, 141, 156, 515, 530
biological
55, 126, 129, 137, 141, 144–145, 155, 166
bird(s)
12, 140, 154, 261–264, 270, 272–275
auspicious
261–262, 274
soul as
31
-woman
332n98
cranes
blood
126, 135, 138, 145, 183n13, 328, 345, 358, 374, 376, 401
and ichor
130, 138–139
menstrual
142–143
rains
524
-red
48, 188n30, 205
-y
136, 169n11
Boethus of Sidon
437, 444–446, 449, 455n73
Boreas
24, 39, 158, 396, 442, 446, 485–486
born in the aether
442, 447–449, 485
character of
104
elevation
442, 447–448
Aquilo and wind
Brentano, Clemens
498, 499n16
Briareos (one of the Hundred-handers)
442, 447, 459, 486
name of
447–449, 460, 486
Buys Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Dedericus
43, 531
Byzantine
2, 6, 170n15, 179, 187–189, 191, 221, 436, 475n169, 478, 483
Cabeo, Nicolo
518
Cadiz
235–236
calendar
22, 28, 33n42, 215–218, 221, 230, 231, 234, 541
Babylonian
13
celestial
14, 538
Greek
169n11, 216
lunar
13–14, 538
Roman
170n15
solar
14, 27, 538
Capelle, Wilhelm
240–241, 243n45, 244, 246, 250–252
Capitoline
282
causal explanation(s)
154–155, 157, 191, 516
cause(s)
efficient
134, 136–137, 141, 427
final
61, 131, 142–145
formal
131
material
131, 135–136, 145, 427
natural(istic)
234, 444
primary
137
Centumcellae (town)
397, 400
Ceres (deity). see Demeter
Ceto (deity)
440, 441n25
change(s)
diurnal
44
in constellations
33–34
of exhalations
139
of seasons
154, 216, 364, 368–369, 378, 380, 383–384
of weather
217, 509n43
of wind direction(s)
15, 44, 291, 545
principle of
132, 134
uni-directional
140
Chariot of the Gods (volcano)
197
chart(s)
50, 228, 531
map
Chester Beatty III papyrus
181
church
524, 526
Clashing Rocks (Συμπληγάδες)
400
classification
130–131, 133, 136, 140–141, 144, 166, 504–506
of constitutions
109
of meteors
355
climate
and astronomy
41, 393
and disease
205n50
and weather
50, 52, 107, 530, 538, 542
change(s)
28, 33n43, 36, 38, 39, 42, 55, 65, 207, 363, 378, 390–391, 537, 543
Earth’s
42, 542–543
effect of
366, 373, 383–384, 391
Egyptian
225
global
205, 497
influence of
364–365, 368, 371–372, 383
Libyan
297, 300
modelling
204, 206n56, 208
nature of
366–367, 379
of the Mediterranean
193, 201n30
seasonal
11, 19, 28, 538
volcanic
201, 208
well-mixed
376–377
zone
29
climatology
54, 495
cloud(s)
anatomy of
50
black/ dark
13, 20, 30, 32, 90n29, 98, 104, 328, 395, 484
bright
30
classification
56, 505, 538
coalescence of
430, 432
convective
45–47, 539, 542, 546
cumulonimbus
46–47, 539, 542, 546
depictions of
56, 526
dust
26, 504
fast-moving
188n33
-free/ -less
24, 44, 240
formation of
68, 418, 440–441, 486, 537, 547
height
243, 250–251
Magellanic
32
mesospheric
53, 543–544
moist
480
noctilucent
53, 543–544
of ashes
33
of the Milky Way
32, 541
of sand
349, 359
of smoke
343
opposing
471
pregnant
330
rain-
293, 396, 405
red
45, 56
seeds of
325
shapes
52, 56, 135, 216, 322n56, 505–506
stars above
18
storm
98, 266
texts on
506
thick
104, 343
wave
52, 539, 543, 546–547
-y
44–45, 104–105
Clymene (daughter of Oceanos)
450–451
coalescences (sustaseis)
145
sustaseis
combination of elements (/-al qualities)
357, 367, 496
comet(s)
135–137, 161–163, 244, 331n91, 477n171, 519–520, 524, 526, 529
analogy with ants
69n27
and earthquakes
58, 529
and the Milky Way
135–136, 520
and shooting stars
162–163, 496, 518
trail
26
commentator(s)
66n14, 67n20, 129, 240, 365, chapter 20
communication
39, 85–86, 90–91, 97–98, 122, 191, 287–289, 292, 297, 302–303, 527
complexity
9, 126, 128, 131, 133, 136, 207, 428, 493, 543
concoct
142
concoction
140
condensation(s)
135–136, 138, 468, 541
confessional
525–526, 532
Constable, John
56, 500, 506
constellation(s)
12–24, 27, 30–36, 48, 172n22, 216, 289, 314, 396, 400, 406, 444–445, 537–538
cord of nature
146
Cornutus, L. Annaeus
438
Corycian cave
167, 175
cosmic nebulae
497, 502, 504
Cottos (one of the Hundred-handers)
441n25, 459–461, 484
Counter-Reformation
526
craft (n./ v.)
184–186, 308, 422, 429
craftsman
72, 142–143, 323
cranes
154
bird(s)
credibility
167, 291–292, 509
Crete
200, 227
critical days
378
curiosity (/-ies)
73, 166–168, 176–177, 235, 287
cycle(s)
28n34, 42, 132, 135, 140, 200, 201n30, 219–220, 223, 316n39, 499, 501, 538, 540, 542
diurnal
44, 544, 547
of life
142
of rain
138
of the moon
171, 538
of the seasons
196, 441
of water
464n110, 465, 468, 469, 485, 516
of wind
17, 316
planetary
219, 230
tidal
235–236
cyclone(s)
40, 322n56, 326n73, 527, 541, 542, 546
Cyclopes
266, 277, 342, 459, 479–482, 486
Cyllene (mountain)
240–242, 244, 250
D’Ailly, Pierre
518
Danube
344, 402
dawn
23, 48, 105, 216, 259, 262–263, 265, 272–274, 276–278, 310–313, 317–320, 394, 442, 498
Della Porta, Giovanni Battista
519–520, 528
Demeter (deity)
32–33, 35–36, 193–200, 202, 453
Kore
Democritus
125, 161, 221
demythologization
308
Derketo (deity)
34
desert(s)
293, 294n19, 297–301, 303, 525, 544
desire(s)
18, 31n38, 75, 104, 126, 128, 143–144, 234, 276, 287, 294n19, 301
Dicaearchus (Aristotle’s pupil)
240–241
dichotomy
130, 133, 141
didactic
35n50, 302–303, 309, 314, 318, 320, 321n54
plot
287
poem(s)
19, 290–292, 294, 315, 318, 339, 518
poetry
291, 308, 315, 319
Diels, Hermann
59, 72n31
differentiae
130, 132–134, 136, 140–141, 145–146
digestion
137–138, 142
Dike (deity)
34
dioptra
240, 247–250
disaster
117, 121–122, 345, chapter 4
and disease
101, 119–120
Carthaginian
200
discipline(s)
233, 494–497, 508n42, 509, 515–517, 520, 530, 532–533
scientific
503, 510, 515
disease(s)
101, 103, 107, 113, 116, 119–121, 183, 195–200, 204–205, 364–365, 368–369, 371–374, 379–380, 382–384
illness and sickness
divination
84, 110, 191, 277
divine endorsement
259, 276, 278
dodecaeteris (/-ides)
215, 219–223, 225–226, 229–230
doxographical
356n48, 366, 373n29
dream(s)
280–282, 284, chapter 9
dream manual(s)
179, 184, 189
Drebbel, Cornelis
528
drop(s)
56, 433, 467, 471
drought(s)
11, 28, 33, 162–163, 198n19, 199, 201, 207
dry farming
197n14
dualizers
145–146
dynamics
11, 372, 383, 540
earthquake(s)
136, 138, 194, 205, 322n63, 345–348, 350–351, 353, 358, 414n10, 424, 427–428, 441n30, 497, 518, 520–522, 524–525, 529, 544
and comet(s)
58
and/ or eclipse(s)
85, 87, 96–97
and tremors
119, 252
and waves
117
and wind(s)
68, 135, 174
as sign
84, 95–96
at Delos
84
cause(s) of
68, 326n74, 427, 522
noise of
326n74
observers
528
eclipse(s)
88, 94–95, 204n50, 227, 275, 524
and earthquake(s)
85, 87, 96–97
as sign
85, 89, 91–92, 94
Babylonian
215
in Archilochus
90
in Herodotus and Thucydides
90n30
in Pindar
87, 95–96
of the moon
169n11, 226–227
omina
215, 225–227, 230
poem(s)
88n19, 90–91
prediction(s)
228, 230
unnaturalness of
90
egg(s)
69, 139, 143, 170–172
electricity
496n11, 497, 502–503, 523
elevated (/ raised) land
419, 421–424, 426, 428
embryo
126, 143
emotion(s)
89, 257, 498, 507–508
emotional
294, 301, 363, 389, 507
Empedocles
125, 308, 316n39, 433
encolpias (winds)
312n21, 313, 318n44
encyclopedia(s)
421, 518, 523
endoxon (/-a)
151, 156–158, 162–163, 469n143
Enlightenment
526
Ennius
258, 260–266, 268, 270, 272–277
Epic of Gilgamesh
180, 189
Epicurean(s)
41, 64, 234, 321n54, 344, 347n26, 358n65, 359
Epicurus
41, 54–55, 59–60, 64, 85n6, 322n61, 330, 359
epilepsy
108–109, 369
equilibrium of forces
502
Erasistrateans
366
Eratosthenes
34, 168, 173, 242, 243n43, 246, 251
Erechtheus (mythological king)
200
eruption(s)
86, 173, 193–194, 202–208, 310n17, 324nd, 343, 348, 352, 354, 358, 359
cause of
321
in Iceland
204
in Pithekoussai
345
of Etna
194n4, 197, 202–203, 327, 340, 344, 354n37, 355, 360
of Okmok
204
of Pelée
51
of Pinatubo
50
of Vesuvius
51, 203–204, 309n11, 328, 332n98, 343n9, 346
volcanic
11n9, 32, 33n43, 36, 50–51, 202, 208, 332, 345, 347, 350–351, 357
Erysichthon (giant)
196n13, 198n19, 199
Etna (mountain)
173, 194, 197, 202–204, 266, 277, 321, 323, 327–328, 339–346, 348, 350, 354–356, 358–360
equinox(es)
15, 28–29, 32, 221, 236, 383, 538, 541–543, 545
Eudoxus (of Cnidus)
35, 168, 172n22, 217, 218n15, 437, 442–446
Eumolpidae
200
evaporation
205, 441n25, 468, 493, 497
vapor
exhalation(s)
63, 67, 136, 138–139, 142, 145, 159n28, 160–161, 426–427, 439–441, 458–461, 465, 468, 470, 474–481, 483n195, 484, 486, 520–522
as cause
459, 479–480
dry
69, 118, 130, 135, 138, 140, 159n28, 161–162, 346–347, 475, 521
in digestion
137n22
moist/ wet
69, 130, 135, 138, 140, 159n28, 161, 479
of the earth
117, 119
theory
125
exosphere
53, 541, 546
experiment(s)
63, 68–69, 496n11, 527–528, 544
Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel
528
famine
93n36, 196, 198–201, 227
feeling(s)
52, 90, 259, 294n19, 300, 364, 507–509, 525
fire dragons
519, 524
fire sphere
473, 476–479, 482–483, 485–486
FitzRoy, Robert
531
flood (n./ v.)
11, 92–94, 215, 219, 224–227, 236, 246, 295, 341, 346n25, 359, 391–393, 406, 424, 465–468
flooding
40–41, 183n13, 223, 226, 230, 387, 393
flowing
52, 72, 92, 135, 173, 356, 404, 423n21, 465, 467–468
frame of reference
287, 289, 292, 294, 297, 299, 302–303, 539, 541, 544
friction
43, 46, 126, 162, 348, 351, 404, 496n11, 547
Friedrich, Caspar David
498–499
Fromond, Libert
518
Galilei, Galileo
48
Galvani, Luigi
503
Gassendi, Pierre
49, 66
Gelon (Sicilian tyrant)
197
Geminus
59, 216–217, 240–243, 251, 443–446
geology
358–359, 495, 497, 503–504, 515, 530
geological
19, 52, 84, 139, 339, 346n21, 359, 387, 393, 399–401, 403–404, 406, 429, 501
giant(s)
199, 266n20, 340
global warming
38, 50, 55
god
95–98, 120, 172n22, 187–191, 275, 295, 330, 342, 400, 419–423, 429, 524–526
-given
182
-like
111
semi-
33
-sent
109, 113
gods
33, 39, 51, 114, 120–121, 175, 179, 181, 184n15, 186, 196, 198, 234, 239–240, 245, 258–260, 270n24, 274, 276–277, 295–297, 303–304, 321, 341, 405–406, 459, 460n96, 466–467, 471, 473, 480–482, 483n195, 486
growth
69, 143, 188n30, 226, 505, 523
Guadalquivir (river)
235
gulf(s)
311–313
Olbian
311
gunpowder
521
Gyges (one of the Hundred-handers)
459, 461
Hales, Stephen
522
halitus
521
Halley, Edmund
529, 530
halo(s)
62, 159, 216n8, 413n7, 443–444, 472n153, 518
Hanno (Carthaginian general)
197
Hanov, Michael Christoph
510
Harpies (female monsters related to winds)
328, 332n98, 470–472, 486
health
108–109, 181–183, 219–220, 363–366, 368–369, 372–373, 376–378, 381, 383–384, 529
heart
110, 142, 450
heat (n./ v.)
11, 15, 26, 28, 32, 71–72, 104, 114n38, 126, 134, 141–142, 200, 206n58, 221, 237, 298–301, 317, 342, 349, 352, 356, 359, 364–365, 371, 375, 381–382, 396, 401–402, 414–415, 430–433, 441n25, 527–528, 539–540
natural
379n44
of the earth
136n19
of the moon
237
of the sun
44, 114, 132, 134, 139, 142, 160, 237, 326n73, 402, 426, 541
source of
71
vital
131, 142–144
wave
55
heating
46–47, 72, 130, 136, 142, 206, 218, 377, 415, 441n25, 545–546
heavenly
21, 89, 133, 179, 187
body (/-ies)
134, 180, 184, 189, 214, 239n29, 262, 378–379, 382–383, 428
disease
113
imitation
131
motion
137
heavens
59, 72, 74, 126, 128, 131–132, 137, 142–143, 179, 180, 182–183, 185, 189–190, 259, 260n6, 264, 266, 274, 296, 379n42, 450–451, 453, 457, 462, 464, 474, 481, 500
and the earth
463–465, 485
movement(s) of
191, 451–452, 478n173
rotation of
133, 453–454
Helicon (mountain)
400
Helios (deity)
186
Sol
hemisphere
15, 204, 440, 462–464, 472n153, 474–476
northern
12, 15, 17, 27–29, 43, 47, 538–539, 541–543, 547
opposite
441, 457, 460, 463, 464n109, 474–476
southern
13, 27n31, 30, 32, 43, 539, 541–542, 545, 547
Hephaestus (deity)
51, 323, 342, 357
Vulcan
Herder, Johann Gottfried
495
hermeneutics
507
Heron (of Alexandria)
72n31, 247–250, 527
Hesperides (nymphs)
450, 456–458, 483–484, 486
Hestia (deity)
453
Hiera (island)
347, 352, 356n54
Himilco (Carthaginian general)
193–194, 196, 198–199, 201
Hippocrates
218, 365–366, 367n12, 368, 370–371, 377n35, 381, 383
Hohenpeissenberg
494n4
homoeomeries (/-ous)
130, 138, 140
Howard, Luke
56, 505–506, 509
Humboldt, Alexander von
498, 503n26, 509n46, 530
humor(s)
367, 371, 375
hurricane(s)
43, 49, 56, 63, 98–99, 118, 137, 138, 324–326, 545–547
hypekkauma
473–479, 482–483
aether
Hypsicles (astronomer)
214
Iapetos (titan)
450–451
ice core(s)
193, 202–205, 346n21
Idealist typology
502, 505
Igilium (island)
398
illness(es)
101, 112, 122, 182–183, 218, 411, 419n13
disease and sickness
imbalance
183, 292, 363
Inanna (deity)
34
instrumental
body
142–143
parts
139, 143
instrument(s)
38, 59, 71n30, 73, 126, 142, 240, 244, 248, 496n11, 503, 525, 527–528, 530
integration
129, 189, 340, 343, 496–497, 499n17, 500–502, 504–505
intertextuality
88n20, 291
Iris (deity)
64, 186, 404–405, 466–472, 486–487
rainbow
Isidore of Seville
518
Isis (deity)
34
Jesuit(s)
68, 518, 523, 529
Jupiter (deity)
259–260, 264n14, 265–266, 273–274, 279, 281–282, 284, 295–296, 332, 400
Zeus
Jupiter (planet)
15n14, 189n35, 190, 219, 221–225, 226n38
Kant, Immanuel
495, 501–502, 504
kapnosphere
162
καταστάσεις (climatic situations)
369
Kepler, Johannes
527
kingship
258–261, 273, 276–277, 279, 284
Kircher, Athanasius
529
Kleist, Heinrich von
498, 499n16
Kore (deity)
193, 195, 197, 199
Demeter
Ladon (mythological snake)
440
Laki (volcano)
204
landscape(s)
102n1, 109, 343–346, 359, 378, 400, 425, 467, 494, 499, 507, 510
changing
387, 405–406, 522
painting
498, 500–501, 507n41, 509
political
260
larva(-e)
126, 143
lava
173, 203, 345, 354, 356–359
layer(s)
26–27, 49, 53–55, 116, 126, 130, 132, 134–135, 139, 202, 358, 415, 424, 458, 493, 504, 537, 539, 541, 544–546
Léméry, Nicolas
528
light and dark(ness)
90, 102n1, 105
lightning
24, 45–50, 56, 196n12, 234, 323n66, 326n73, 343, 395, 479, 521, 539, 542, 546, chapter 5 and 13
and thunder
46–47, 58, 67, 104n9, 105, 117–118, 260, 272, 277–278, 284, 321, 352, 355, 477, 479, 483n195, 521
locomotion
128, 132–133, 136, 141, 144
locus horrendus
344
Luther, Martin
525
macrocosm(s)
128–130, 132, 134, 138, 140, 142, 145–146
macrocosmic
129, 135, 138–139, 180n2, 181, 183n12
Maghreb
201, 207
magnetism
497, 502–503
mammals
109, 138
map(s)
24–25, 389, 529–530
chart
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
531
mechanical
496n11, 503, 505, 519, 521–522
media
122, 179–180, 257, 494n3, 498, 507, 508n43
medicine
101, 108, 166n2, 168, 181, 363, 378, 380, 381n50, 383n55, 411n2, 529
Mediterranean
17–18, 30, 187, 193, 201, 204–206, 259, 317, 340, 344, 348
mesosphere
53, 542–546
metal(s)
135–138, 140, 144, 357, 543
meteor(s)
24, 26–27, 41, 151, 163, 340, 346, 348, 355–357, 430, 432, 493, 502, 518–521, 525
shooting star(s)
meteora
58, 60, 62, 72, 75, 84, 85n6, 97, 125, 128, 130–131, 133–136, 138–141, 143–146, 493, 495–500, 509
meteoros
meteorologia
58–59, 84, 495n8, 516, 518, 524, 532
meteorological knowledge
19, 68, 101, 104, 107, 112, 122, 295n21, 363, 368, 372–374, 376, 378–379, 381–384
meteorologist(s)
39–42, 50–51, 53–56, 72, 83n1, 238, 244, 516, 524, 531, 543
meteoros
83–85, 87, 89, 97, 99
meteora
Methodists
366
mice
167, 169–171, 177
microcosm(s)
128–130, 135, 138–139, 145–146, 183
microcosmic
129, 138–140, 180
Milky Way
30–32, 135–137, 140n30, 180, 496, 519–520, 541
mineral(s)
68, 135–136, 138, 140, 357, 412, 414n10, 415, 423, 505
miracles
524–525
mixture(s)
68, 131, 134, 139, 365–368, 373, 375, 521
admixture
monsoon(s)
15, 17, 19, 225, 529
Mont Blanc
246, 503–504
mood (Stimmung)
494n2, 507
mountain(s)
144, 175, 194, 241, 310, 325, 342–343, 349, 351–353, 359, 393, 412, 415, 419, 499–500, 530, 537, 539, 543–544, 547
and land
418, 422–423, 426, 428–429, 431, 434
and sea(s)
121, 415
cause(s) of
423, 427
effects
44, 52
formation
52, 418, 422–429
height(s) of
241–245, 247–252, 430, 432
high(est)
51, 239–240, 242–244, 246–247, 250–251
of fire
340, 355, 358
Rocky
56, 540
mud
53, 415, 417, 426–432, 434
Naevius, Gnaeus
265
natural
constitution
366, 373
philosophy
60, 65, 125, 131, 181, 307–309, 403, 430n33, 515–517, 519, 521, 524–525, 527, 532–533
philosophy of nature
place(s)
131–132, 134, 417, 428
world
93, 102, 116, 120, 191, 233, 307n6, 392, 412, 419, 422–423, 426, 428–429, 500
navigation
290, 314, 318n46, 529, 531
Neoplatonic
436, 439, 440n22, 458, 478–479, 483, 484n197
Neptune (deity)
295–296, 327–331
Poseidon
Newton, Isaac
43, 519, 522, 543–544
niche(s)
137, 139
Nile
224–227, 230, 344, 391–393
Nollet, Jean-Antoine
73–74
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
206
notebook
155–156, 163
Notus
39, 396
Auster and wind
observatory (/-ies)
218, 494n4, 516, 531
oceanography
531
Oceanos (titan)
465–469, 471, 485–486
Oeta (mountain)
240
Okmok (volcano)
204
Olympus (mountain)
51, 175n31, 239–242, 250, 457, 466
ontology
130–131, 145
oracle(s)
83–84, 99
Oresme, Nicole
518
Orion
18, 20–21, 23, 33, 216–218, 314n29, 317n43, 395–396, 445n38
Orpheus (mythological musician)
220, 222, 230n53, 231
Ørsted, Hans Christian
503
paradoxon
166n3, 167–168, 172, 174, 176
parapegma(ta)
59–60, 62, 64–65, 75, 215–218, 221, 229, 230n54, 234, 317n43
parboiling
140
Paracelsus
525
parhelia
66–67, 159
Pegasus (constellation)
24–25, 34, 400
Pegasus (mythological horse)
400, 482, 483n195, 486
Pelion (mountain)
241
Peloponnesian War
83, 201
Peripatetic
101, 107n16, 121, 151–152, 155–156, 473, 485
Philistus (historian)
198
philosophy of nature
495, 500–502, 504, 506
natural philosophy
Phlegyas (mythological warrior)
328
Phorcys (deity)
440, 441n25
physician(s)
184n15, 363, 366–367, 370, 378, 381, 384, 411n2, 529
physics
9, 15n16, 66, 73, 128–129, 132, 145, 173, 180, 307, 356–357, 455, 495, 510, 515, 543, 546
Aristotelian
134, 145–146, 357
general
125, 128, 141, 146
of the atmosphere
38–39
Stoic
346
physiology
366–368, 377–378, 383, 497, 503
planetary
55, 214–215, 219, 223, 229–230, 504, 537, 544
plant(s)
30, 126, 138–139, 142, 145, 200, 400, 402, 420–422, 425, 457, 493, 500, 505, 537
Pleiades
12n10, 18–20, 216
pneuma
186, 346–348, 350, 358
pneumatics
523
Pneumatists
365
Pompeii
204
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano
518
Populonia (cliff and bay)
403–404, 406
Poseidon (deity)
95–96, 323n64, 330n88, 474
Neptune
Posidonius
9, 54, 173, 339, 345–346, 350, 352, 354–355, 358–359, 437–438, 461–462, 479n174, 480n189, 484, chapter 12
praemeditatio
94
prediction(s)
9, 11, 40, 67, 154, 287, 293, 296, 300, 302–303, 384, 498, 508, 529, chapter 11
eclipse
228, 230
methods of
219
of meteorological phenomena
60, 75
of rain
224–225, 228, 231
techniques of
62, 215
weather
11, 41, 58–62, 106n14, 122, 215, 218, 229, 289, 292, 294–295, 297, 299, 302–303, 516, 532, 541, 543–544
presentiment
508
Presocratic
63, 101, 118, 121, 181, 437, 524
prester(es
) 49, 51, 63, 308, 320–332, 479, 480
prime matter
356
principle(s)
basic
129, 137, 412
of change
132, 134
of meteorology
67, 73, 346, 412, 482, 485
of movement
140n28, 452
of stability
453n61, 455
physical
125, 440, 451, 453
universal
501
procella
296n24, 323–325
professionalization
516, 530, 532
prognostics
181
prophecy (/-ies)
83, 112n30, 181, 184, 188–189, 191, 201
prophetic
111, 179–180, 184n15, 187, 191
providence
234, 278, 419–422, 424
psychology
128–129, 495
Ptolemy, Claudius
60, 64, 168, 172n22, 180, 215–218, 228, 436n4, 456, 458, 483, 515, 541
pushing and pulling
136
pyroclastic flow(s)
49n48, 51, 323, 324nd, 327–328, 332n98
Pythagoras (of Samos)
436n4, 456, 458
Quetelet, Adolphe
531
rain(s)
18, 20, 27, 67–68, 104–106, 108, 110, 135, 137–138, 144, 163, 197n14, 200–202, 206, 207n64, 223, 226, 228–231, 298–300, 382, 392, 395–397, 404, 465, 493, 518, 539
and cloud(s)
140n29, 293, 396, 405, 502
and flood
219, 224–225
and wind(s)
40, 57–58, 157, 162, 217, 240, 293, 444
cause of
161
dream of
183, 188n33
heavy
229, 424
light
186
purple
526
summer
93n35
-y
31, 92, 94
rainbow(s)
56, 62, 66–68, 186, 233, 310, 405, 413n7, 467, 469–472, 485–486, 516, 518, 521
colors of
10n3, 472
cause of
471–472
Iris
realism
506n39
Reformation
525–526
Reinzer, Franz
518, 520
relational phenomena
502
remythologization
308
reproduction
131, 140, 142
reptiles
138–139
revolution(s)
161, 278n38, 516, 533
scientific
66, 68, 515–516, 519, 523, 532–533
Rhine
344, 392–393
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm
503
Romanticist
498, 500, 506, 510
Rome
19, 25, 64, 66, 257–258, 260–261, 266, 268–269, 272–273, 276–280, 282, 284, 350, 387–388, 391–393, 398, 404–406
Romulus
258–261, 270n24, 273–276, 278–282
sailing
18, 20, 24, 106, 120n57, 317–319, 330, 390, 393, 395–396, 398
season
18, 20, 22–23, 317n43
Saint Elmo’s fire
521
salinity
410n10, 419, 433
salt(s)
67–69, 401–404, 406, 424, 433, 505, 537
sand
114, 116, 119, 298–299, 349, 359, 424
Sardinia
195–196, 199
scala (/-ae) (naturae)
126, 128, 138, 141, 146
scapegoat sacrifice
198n19
Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob
529
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
508
scientificity
292, 495
sea-urchin(s)
167, 170–172
season(s)
11, 13, 15, 17–18, 31–32, 34, 93, 98, 106, 152, 196, 201n30, 204n48, 205, 222, 224–226, 228–229, 290, 298, 457, 501, 542–543, 545, chapter 17
and constellations
12, 444
cause of
15, 29, 379
change(s) of
154, 216, 364, 369, 378, 381n50, 384
cold(est)
30, 223
definition of
28, 537
length of
29–30
sailing
18, 20, 22–23, 317n43
warm
27, 223
wet
202, 206–207
seasonal
animals
537
asterisms
12–14
climate
11, 19, 28, 538
conditions
369
festivals
30
meteors
24
phenomena
59, 64
weather
27, 29, 62
winds
15, 19
secularization
516, 532
Seebeck, Thomas
503
semen
142–143
semiotic
83n1, 84–85, 91, 97
Shannon and Weaver model
288
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
500, 506
shooting star(s)
24, 27, 41, 136, 151, 157–163, 216n8, 274, 443–445, 496, 502, 518, 521
meteor
Sicily
32–33, 36, 51, 173, 194–198, 200, 203, 205, 218n15, 321, 323, 327, 341–342, 345–346, 354, 356n48
sickness
102n2, 103, 108, 112, 181–183, 188, 199–200
disease and illness
sign(s)
auspicious
270, 273
comets as
162n32, 163, 526
earthquake as
84, 95–96
eclipse as
85, 91–92
lightning as
105–106, 110
meteorological
83–85, 87, 94, 97
of rain
157, 163
of storm
23, 90n29, 154, 156
of wind
157–159, 163
weather
45, 60, 75, 101, 104–107, 113, 151, 153, 156–157, 159n26, 162–163, 234, 294, 314, 444, 445n36 and 37, 517
zodiacal
22, 214, 218, 220, 222, 227
Sirius
18n22, 20–21, 154, 215–216, 218, 224–225, 395–396, 401–402
Sirius texts
215, 223, 225–227, 230
snowflake(s)
56, 110, 527
Sol (deity)
29
Helios
sol (sun)
261–263, 270, 273, 316
solstice(s)
28–29, 32, 217, 236, 245, 383, 538, 545
soul(s)
31, 104, 126, 128–129, 131, 137, 139–142, 275n31, 378, 383–384, 436n4, chapter 9
cognitive
143–144
mixing bowl of
128
nutritive
142–144
rational
128, 146
spider
157
spiritus
345, 350–352, 358
spring
29–30, 105, 203, 207, 221, 236, 246, 290–293, 367, 381, 383n195
triangle
12
springs
24–25, 299, 353, 356, 400–402, 406, 414n10, 434, 519–520
spontaneous generation
131, 142, 145–146
star(s)
and sun, moon
108, 180, 183, 190, 239
and wind(s)
12, 19, 445
bright
12, 20–21, 23, 190, 537, 541
catalogue
19n26
cluster(s)
12n10, 18–20, 537
density of
30, 32
dog
188n32, 382, 396
fixed
60, 214–217, 223n31
morning
262n9, 394
Aurora
motion(s)/ movement(s) of
315, 444, 445n38, 496, 541
rising
15, 153, 218, 380–382, 442–444, 541
setting
153, 218, 381–382, 442–444
sun-like
10n7
shooting star
Stifter, Adalbert
505n33, 507n41, 508
Stoic(s)
59, 94, 170, 184, 186–187, 233–235, 301, 303, 307, 345–347, 358, 437–438, 461, 473, 487, 519–520
storm(s)
cloud(s)
56, 98, 266
dust
113–116, 119–121
marine
40, 542
sign(s) of
23, 90n29, 154, 156
snow
92–93, 154, 500
solar
49, 537
thunder-
43, 46, 56, 497n12, 504, 518, 520, 523, 542, 547
turbo-
327–328, 332n98
violent
114, 136, 326
winter
40, 294
-y
18, 20, 45, 104, 120, 156, 162n32, 291, 314n28, 395–396
strait(s)
121, 167, 172–174, 328, 330, 400, 434
stratosphere
50, 53, 206, 542, 545–546
Stromboli (volcano)
203
Styx (daughter of Oceanos)
465–468, 470–472, 474, 486–487
sublunary
elements
126, 132–133
heat
142
living things
142
part
356
realm
137, 142–143
world
134, 136–137, 139, 143, 162, chapter 19
Sulla (Roman dictator)
279–282, 284
summer
19, 32, 46–47, 66, 92–94, 105, 111, 134, 154, 157, 195, 200, 203–205, 218, 317, 368, 381–382, 387, 401–402, 459, 542, 544–545, 547
northern
17, 28–30, 538, 543
season
20, 206n56, 207, 376
solstice
28, 217, 236, 538
triangle
12
sun(s)
10n4, 15, 17, 22–23, 28–29, 32, 41, 49, 66, 88, 91, 126, 130, 144, 182, 186, 188, 217–220, 228, 236, 251, 261, 270, 273, 293, 298, 357, 363, 379, 382, 403, 427–428, 431, 434, 440, 446–447, 461, 465, 472n153, 483n195, 518, 538, 541, 543–544, 548
and moon
105, 167, 172n22, 179, 188–190, 219–220, 238, 239n29, 264, 380, 424, 445
and moon, stars
108, 180, 183, 190, 239
as cause
44, 313n23, 379
course of
89–90, 216n10, 301
eclipse of
89, 227
heat(ing)
44, 131–132, 134, 136, 139–142, 160, 237, 326n73, 402, 426, 441n25
-light
42, 50, 105, 167, 172n22, 175, 188n30, 203, 205, 265, 300, 392, 467, 471, 493, 502
motion/ movement(s) of
134n14, 136, 214, 444, 468n139
rays/ radiation of
114, 167, 175, 238n27, 263, 266n19, 319, 413n5, 430, 432–433
rise (/-ing)
44–45, 56, 105, 262–263, 265n17, 272, 310–313, 315–317, 381, 394, 443
set(ting)
44–45, 56, 156, 187, 205, 262, 272, 291, 312n20, 314–318, 394, 398–399, 443, 537
Helios and Sol
sustaseis (coalescences)
130, 135, 145
sympatheia (contagio)
170
Tartarus
341, 431, 441, 450, 459–460, 462–464, 473–477
Ṯābit ibn Qurra (polymath)
419–421
teleology
131, 134
Telesio, Bernardino
520
terrestrial
61, 68, 128, 133–134, 139n26, 141, 160, 180, 187–188, 190–191, 387, 393, 396, 419, 421, 520
testacea
138
τέρας
88, 91, 341
terminology
65, 67, 292, 324, 345, 445n38, 457n81, 479, 486, 493, 502, 509
tertium quid
128–129, 141, 145
the more and the less
134, 141n33, 160
theological
187, 189n36, 418–419, 421–422, 425, 428–429, 526
theology
235, 525–526
therapeutic
374–376, 384
thermodynamics
15n16, 497, 540
thermometer(s)
38, 527–528
thermosphere
49, 53, 542, 546
thunder(s)
103, 110, 186n20, 188n33, 273–274, 326, 342, 480–483, 486, 524, 539, 546
lightning and storm
thunderbolt(s)
45, 101, 113–121, 186n21, 321–322, 325–326, 352, 424, 479, 524, chapter 13
tide(s)
41, 168n7, 170n14, 174, 235–237, 245–246, 518, 522
Timaeus (historian)
195n7, 196, 198–199
Timoleon (Corinthian general)
197
Tiphys (the Argonauts’ helmsman)
314–315, 317–320
tissues
130, 137–138, 140, 142, 503n26
meteorological
130, 138, 142
Titanomachy
436n4, 441, 459–460, 463, 473–474, 476
tornado(es)
43, 49–50, 115, 117, 135, 138, 322, 326, 480, 528, 545–547
transformation(s)
34, 168, 357, 515, 533
of ancient meteorology
517, 532
of constellations
33, 34n48
of elements
126, 132, 134, 136, 356
of energy
540
triptych(al)
129, 131, 143, 145–146
Triturrita (house)
404
troposphere
53, 238–239, 544–546
tsunami(s)
345–346
turbo
323–329, 332n97 and 98
Tyche (deity)
34
Typhoeus
39, 117, 328
Typhon
Typhon (monstrous deity)
49, 117, 308, 320–323, 327–332, 340–341
Typhoeus
typhon(es)
49, 322–327, 332
Tzetzes, John
220, 222, 223n28
uncertainty
54, 83–87, 89, 94, 96–99, 244, 497–498, 510, 539–540, 544
universe
126, 132, 170, 180–183, 378n42, 440–441, 450–453, 455, 462–464, 474, 484–485, 502, 504
universities
518, 523, 525, 527
vapor(s)
67, 69, 130, 135, 143, 160–161, 342, 414n10, 415, 430–433, 441n25, 465, 468n142, 520–522, 541
evaporation
vaporous
415–418, 430–433
Verne, Jules
497n12
vertex
50, 323–326
Vesuvius
51, 203–204, 309n11, 328, 332n98, 343n9, 346, 359
Vischer, Friedrich Theodor
507n41
Volaterra (city)
399–400
volcano(es)
32, 33n43, 36, 50–51, 197, 204n46, 205, 321, 324nd, 331, 528, chapter 16
eruption
Volta, Alessandro
503
Vulcan
266, 277, 342, 357
Hephaestus
Vulcano (volcano)
203, 345
Wandering rocks (Πλάγκται)
323n66
waves
20, 41, 117, 237, 289–290, 293, 296, 310, 328–331, 346n25, 350, 352, 359, 395–396, 404, 424, 499n17
weatherman
83, 97–98
weather rule(s)
17–20, 22, 24
weathervanes
64
well-mixedness
376–378, 383
whirlwind(s)
113, 115, 117–118, 120, 322n56, 323, 325, 327n77, 330, 510
will o’the wisps
519, 521, 524
wind(s)
17–18, 23, 39, 41n6, 42, 44–47, 51–55, 58, 67, 69, 71–75, 97, 107, 113–118, 121, 151–154, 159–161, 168, 174, 186, 200, 206n58, 216n8, 230n54, 238, 240, 242–244, 272, 289–291, 293, 296, 308, 310–311, 313–315, 318–322, 324–327, 330–332, 347, 349, 351, 363–364, 371, 377, 379, 384, 393, 396–398, 406, 427, 430, 432, 434, 439, 442, 449, 461, 470, 472, 481, 484–486, 493, 503, 518–521, 527–528, 531, 538–539, 542–543, 545–548
above the highest mountains
51, 239
ageostrophic
43, 46, 547–548
aithrias
442, 447–448
and stars
12, 19, 445
and drought(s)
162–163
and lightning
101, 104, 106, 108, 117, 122
and rain
40, 57, 157, 162
and rivers
135–136, 138
and shooting stars
151, 158–159, 161
cause of
17, 42, 45–46, 68, 444
cell system
16, 542
cycle of
316
direction(s)
15, 17, 43–44, 106, 167, 378, 529, 544
east(erly/ -ern)
24, 109, 221, 460
Etesian
17, 19, 175–176, 217, 445n38, 547
geostrophic
43, 547
in gulfs
312
encolpias
isallobaric
43
katabatic
43, 52, 540, 548
motion/ movement of
111, 115, 117, 119, 237
north(erly/ -ern)
20, 104–105, 108–109, 176, 221, 246, 294, 317, 394, 396, 399, 459–460, 485
Boreas and Aquilo
ornithiai
445n38
-rose(s)
59, 446
seasonal
15, 19
sign(s)
107, 157–159, 163
simile
103, 108, 110
solar
10n4, 49, 537, 542, 544, 548
south(erly/ -ern)
101–106, 108–109, 112, 122, 217, 266, 317–318, 348, 396–397, 460, 540, 547
Notus and Auster
subterranean
321, 327n79
Tower of
59, 64
trade
15, 17, 529
west(ern)
70n29, 109, 460, 539
Zephyrus
-y
51, 322n61, 332, 350, 427, 547
wind-system(s)
15, 17, 19
winter
19, 27n31, 28, 30, 32, 40, 46–47, 55, 105–106, 111, 134, 157, 207, 221, 238, 294, 298–299, 368, 381, 402, 459–460, 474, 479, 540, 542, 545
hexagon
12
Libyan
300
northern
17, 29, 545
solstice
28–29, 236, 538
southern
543
stormy
20, 291
westerlies
206
winds
289–290, 460n96
-y
20, 395
Wolff, Christian
495, 510
Xenagoras (geometer)
241, 250
Zeus
18–20, 22–24, 70n29, 88, 90–91, 96, 111, 115, 117, 171, 194, 196, 201, 275, 320, 341, 447–448, 459, 466, 473, 479–480, 482, 483n195, 486
Jupiter
Zephyrus
39, 158, 446
wind
zodiac
22, 33n42, 35n51, 214, 216, 219, 223, 227–228, 310, 444, 538