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Author Cronin, Pat, 1937-

Title Greek popular meteorology from antiquity to the present : the folk-interpretation of celestial signs / Patrick Cronin ; with a foreword by G.L. Huxley
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 402 pages) : illustrations
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Guidelines for the Reader; Prolegomena; Catalogue of Signs; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; Maps
Summary This book, the only one of its kind in the English language, examines the attempts of the Greeks to predict weather change by means of naked-eye observation of celestial phenomena, unaided by scientific meteorology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Meteorology -- Greece -- History
NATURE -- Weather.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
Meteorology
Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773420960
0773420967