Ancient Meteorology

Abstract

THIS book owes its appearance in an English dress to the action of Mr. G. J. Symons, who believed its contents to be of such value and interest, that he offered to defray the expenses of publication provided a competent authority would prepare a translation of this neglected author. An able and willing translator was found in Mr. J. G. Wood, sometime Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and we are thus put in easy possession of the thoughts and the science of Theophrastus, or it may be the wisdom of Aristotle, filtered through the mind of his favourite pupil. It need scarcely be said that the book possesses a greater interest for the archæologist than for the pupil of modern science, whose habit of thought is so different from that of the old Greek author, that he will have a difficulty in attempting to follow him.

Theophrastus of Eresus, on Winds and on Weather Signs.

Translated, with an Introduction, and an Appendix, by Jas. G. Wood, M.A., LL.B., F.G.S., and edited by G. J. Symons, F.R.S. (London: Stanford, 1894.)