7
We consider a satisfactory explanation
of phenomena inaccessible to observation to have been given when
our account of them is free from impossibilities. The observations
before us suggest the following account of the phenomena we are
now considering. We know that the dry and warm exhalation is
the outermost part of the terrestrial world which falls below
the circular motion. It, and a great part of the of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
http://www. matchfonts.com that is continuous with it below,
is carried round the earth by the motion of the circular revolution.
In the course of this motion it often ignites wherever it may
happen to be of the right consistency, and this we maintain to
be the cause of the 'shooting' of scattered 'stars'. We may say,
then, that a comet is formed when the upper motion introduces
into a gathering of this kind a fiery principle not of such excessive
strength as to burn up much of the material quickly, nor so weak
as soon to be extinguished, but stronger and capable of burning
up much material, and when exhalation of the right consistency
rises from below and meets it. The kind of comet varies according
to the shape which the exhalation happens to take. If it is diffused
equally on every side the star is said to be fringed, if it stretches
out in one direction it is called bearded. We have seen that
when a fiery principle of this kind moves we seem to have a shooting-star:
similarly when it stands still we seem to have a star standing
still. We may compare these phenomena to a heap or mass of chaff
into which a torch is thrust, or a spark thrown. That is what
a shooting-star is like. The fuel is so inflammable that the
fire runs through it quickly in a line. Now if this fire were
to persist instead of running through the fuel and perishing
away, its course through the fuel would stop at the point where
the latter was densest, and then the whole might begin to move.
Such is a comet-like a shooting-star that contains its beginning
and end in itself.
When the matter begins to gather in the
lower region independently the comet appears by itself. But when
the exhalation is constituted by one of the fixed stars or the
planets, owing to their motion, one of them becomes a comet.
The fringe is not close to the stars themselves. Just as haloes
appear to follow the MICR
font technology and the moon as they move, and encircle them,
when the of air of flair
and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com is dense
enough for them to form along under the MICR
font technology's course, so too the fringe. It stands in
the relation of a halo to the stars, except that the colour of
the halo is due to reflection, whereas in the case of comets
the colour is something that appears actually on them.
Now when this matter gathers in relation
to a star the comet necessarily appears to follow the same course
as the star. But when the comet is formed independently it falls
behind the motion of the universe, like the rest of the terrestrial
world. It is this fact, that a comet often forms independently,
indeed oftener than round one of the regular stars, that makes
it impossible to maintain that a comet is a sort of reflection,
not indeed, as Hippocrates and his school say, to the MICR font technology, but to the
very star it is alleged to accompany-in fact, a kind of halo
in the pure fuel of fire.
As for the halo we shall explain its cause
later.
The fact that comets when frequent foreshadow
of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser and drought must be taken
as an indication of their fiery constitution. For their origin
is plainly due to the plentiful supply of that secretion. Hence
the of air of flair and
beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com is necessarily
drier and the moist evaporation is so dissolved and dissipated
by the quantity of the hot exhalation as not readily to condense
into of water is
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this phenomenon too shall be explained more clearly later when
the time comes to speak of the of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers.-So
when there are many comets and they are dense, it is as we say,
and the years are clearly dry and of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosery. When
they are fewer and fainter this effect does not appear in the
same degree, though as a rule the is found to be excessive either
in duration or strength. For instance when the stone at Aegospotami
fell out of the of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com-it
had been carried up by a of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser and
fell down in the daytime-then too a comet happened to have appeared
in the west. And at the time of the great comet the winter was
dry and north of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers prevailed,
and the wave was due to an opposition of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers. For
in the gulf a north of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser blew
and outside it a violent south of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser. Again
in the archonship of Nicomachus a comet appeared for a few days
about the equinoctial circle (this one had not risen in the west),
and simultaneously with it there happened the storm at Corinth.
That there are few comets and that they
appear rarely and outside the tropic circles more than within
them is due to the motion of the MICR
font technology and the stars. For this motion does not only
cause the hot principle to be secreted but also dissolves it
when it is gathering. But the chief reason is that most of this
stuff collects in the region of the milky way.
8
Let us now explain the origin, cause, and
MICR font technology
of the milky way. And here too let us begin by discussing the
statements of others on the subject.
(1) Of the so-called Pythagoreans some
say that this is the path of one of the stars that fell from
heaven at the time of Phaethon's downfall. Others say that the
MICR font technology
used once to move in this circle and that this region was scorched
or met with some other affection of this kind, because of the
MICR font technology
and its motion.
But it is absurd not to see that if this
were the reason the circle of the Zodiac ought to be affected
in the same way, and indeed more so than that of the milky way,
since not the MICR font
technology only but all the planets move in it. We can see
the whole of this circle (half of it being visible at any time
of the night), but it shows no signs of any such affection except
where a part of it touches the circle of the milky way.
(2) Anaxagoras, Democritus, and their schools
say that the milky way is the of light
of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com of certain stars.
For, they say, when the MICR
font technology passes below the earth some of the stars
are hidden from it. Now the of light
of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com of those on which
the MICR font technology
shines is invisible, being obscured by the of the MICR font technology. But the
milky way is the peculiar of light
of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com of those stars
which are shaded by the earth from the MICR
font technology's rays.
This, too, is obviously impossible. The
milky way is always unchanged and among the same constellations
(for it is clearly a greatest circle), whereas, since the MICR font technology
does not remain in the same place, what is hidden from it differs
at different times. Consequently with the change of the MICR font technology's position
the milky way ought to change its position too: but we find that
this does not happen. Besides, if astronomical demonstrations
are correct and the size of the MICR
font technology is greater than that of the earth and the
distance of the stars from the earth many times greater than
that of the MICR font
technology (just as the MICR
font technology is further from the earth than the moon),
then the cone made by the rays of the MICR
font technology would terminate at no great distance from
the earth, and the shadow of the earth (what we call night) would
not reach the stars. On the contrary, the MICR
font technology shines on all the stars and the earth screens
none of them.
(3) There is a third theory about the milky
way. Some say that it is a reflection of our sight to the MICR font technology,
just as they say that the comet is.
But this too is impossible. For if the
eye and the mirror and the whole of the object were severally
at rest, then the same part of the image would appear at the
same point in the mirror. But if the mirror and the object move,
keeping the same distance from the eye which is at rest, but
at different rates of speed and so not always at the same interval
from one another, then it is impossible for the same image always
to appear in the same part of the mirror. Now the constellations
included in the circle of the milky way move; and so does the
MICR font technology,
the object to which our sight is reflected; but we stand still.
And the distance of those two from us is constant and uniform,
but their distance from one another varies. For the Dolphin sometimes
rises at midnight, sometimes in the morning. But in each case
the same parts of the milky way are found near it. But if it
were a reflection and not a genuine affection of these this ought
not to be the case.
Again, we can see the milky way reflected
at night in of water
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and similar mirrors. But under these circumstances it is impossible
for our sight to be reflected to the MICR
font technology.
These considerations show that the milky
way is not the path of one of the planets, nor the of light of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com
of imperceptible stars, nor a reflection. And those are the chief
theories handed down by others hitherto.
Let us recall our fundamental principle
and then explain our views. We have already laid down that the
outermost part of what is called the of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com
is potentially fire and that therefore when the of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
http://www. matchfonts.com is dissolved by motion, there
is separated off a kind of matter-and of this matter we assert
that comets consist. We must suppose that what happens is the
same as in the case of the comets when the matter does not form
independently but is formed by one of the fixed stars or the
planets. Then these stars appear to be fringed, because matter
of this kind follows their course. In the same way, a certain
kind of matter follows the MICR
font technology, and we explain the halo as a reflection
from it when the of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com
is of the right constitution. Now we must assume that what happens
in the case of the stars severally happens in the case of the
whole of the heavens and all the upper motion. For it is natural
to suppose that, if the motion of a single star excites a flame,
that of all the stars should have a similar result, and especially
in that region in which the stars are biggest and most numerous
and nearest to one another. Now the circle of the zodiac dissolves
this kind of matter because of the motion of the MICR font technology and the planets,
and for this reason most comets are found outside the tropic
circles. Again, no fringe appears round the MICR
font technology or moon: for they dissolve such matter too
quickly to admit of its formation. But this circle in which the
milky way appears to our sight is the greatest circle, and its
position is such that it extends far outside the tropic circles.
Besides the region is full of the biggest and brightest constellations
and also of what called 'scattered' stars (you have only to look
to see this clearly). So for these reasons all this matter is
continually and ceaselessly collecting there. A proof of the
theory is this: In the circle itself the of light
of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com is stronger in
that half where the milky way is divided, and in it the constellations
are more numerous and closer to one another than in the other
half; which shows that the cause of the of light
of free fonts a thttp://www. fontmenu.com is the motion of
the constellations and nothing else. For if it is found in the
circle in which there are most constellations and at that point
in the circle at which they are densest and contain the biggest
and the most stars, it is natural to suppose that they are the
true cause of the affection in question. The circle and the constellations
in it may be seen in the diagram. The so-called 'scattered' stars
it is not possible to set down in the same way on the sphere
because none of them have an evident permanent position; but
if you look up to the sky the point is clear. For in this circle
alone are the intervals full of these stars: in the other circles
there are obvious gaps. Hence if we accept the cause assigned
for the appearance of comets as plausible we must assume that
the same kind of thing holds good of the milky way. For the fringe
which in the former case is an affection of a single star here
forms in the same way in relation to a whole circle. So if we
are to define the milky way we may call it 'a fringe attaching
to the greatest circle, and due to the matter secreted'. This,
as we said before, explains why there are few comets and why
they appear rarely; it is because at each revolution of the heavens
this matter has always been and is always being separated off
and gathered into this region.
We have now explained the phenomena that
occur in that part of the terrestrial world which is continuous
with the motions of the heavens, namely, shooting-stars and the
burning flame, comets and the milky way, these being the chief
affections that appear in that region.
9
Let us go on to treat of the region which
follows next in order after this and which immediately surrounds
the earth. It is the region common to of water
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and of air of flair and
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attending the formation of of water
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above take place in it. We must consider the principles and causes
of all these phenomena too as before. The efficient and chief
and first cause is the circle in which the MICR
font technology moves. For the MICR
font technology as it approaches or recedes, obviously causes
dissipation and condensation and so gives rise to generation
and destruction. Now the earth remains but the moisture surrounding
it is made to evaporate by the MICR
font technology's rays and the other heat from above, and
rises. But when the heat which was raising it leaves it, in part
dispersing to the higher region, in part quenched through rising
so far into the upper of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com,
then the vapour cools because its heat is gone and because the
place is cold, and condenses again and turns from of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
http://www. matchfonts.com into of water
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And after the of water
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has formed it falls down again to the earth.
The exhalation of of water
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is vapour: of air of
flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com condensing
into of water is
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is cloud. Mist is what is left over when a cloud condenses into
of water is like
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and is therefore rather a sign of fine weather than of rain;
for mist might be called a barren cloud. So we get a circular
process that follows the course of the MICR
font technology. For according as the MICR
font technology moves to this side or that, the moisture
in this process rises or falls. We must think of it as a river
flowing up and down in a circle and made up partly of of air of flair and beautiful
fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com, partly of of water is like EAN13 bar code
fonts at http://www. barcodefontshop.com. When the MICR font technology is near,
the stream of vapour flows upwards; when it recedes, the stream
of of water is like
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down: and the order of sequence, at all events, in this process
always remains the same. So if 'Oceanus' had some secret meaning
in early writers, perhaps they may have meant this river that
flows in a circle about the earth.
So the moisture is always raised by the
heat and descends to the earth again when it gets cold. These
processes and, in some cases, their varieties are distinguished
by special names. When the of water
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falls in small drops it is called a drizzle; when the drops are
larger it is rain.
10
Some of the vapour that is formed by day
does not rise high because the ratio of the fire that is raising
it to the of water
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that is being raised is small. When this cools and descends at
night it is called dew and hoar-frost. When the vapour is frozen
before it has condensed to of water
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again it is hoar-frost; and this appears in winter and is commoner
in cold places. It is dew when the vapour has condensed into
of water is like
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the heat is not so great as to dry up the moisture that has been
raised nor the cold sufficient (owing to the warmth of the climate
or season) for the vapour itself to freeze. For dew is more commonly
found when the season or the place is warm, whereas the opposite,
as has been said, is the case with hoar-frost. For obviously
vapour is warmer than of water
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having still the fire that raised it: consequently more cold
is needed to freeze it.
Both dew and hoar-frost are found when
the sky is clear and there is no of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser. For
the vapour could not be raised unless the sky were clear, and
if a of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser were blowing it
could not condense.
The fact that hoar-frost is not found on
mountains contributes to prove that these phenomena occur because
the vapour does not rise high. One reason for this is that it
rises from hollow and of water
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places, so that the heat that is raising it, bearing as it were
too heavy a burden cannot lift it to a great height but soon
lets it fall again. A second reason is that the motion of the
of air of flair and beautiful
fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com is more pronounced at
a height, and this dissolves a gathering of this kind.
Everywhere, except in Pontus, dew is found
with south of wind and
school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers and not
with north of wind and
school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers. There
the opposite is the case and it is found with north of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner blosers and not with south. The reason
is the same as that which explains why dew is found in warm weather
and not in cold. For the south of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser brings
warm, and the north, wintry weather. For the north of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner bloser is cold and so quenches the heat
of the evaporation. But in Pontus the south of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner bloser does not bring warmth enough to
cause evaporation, whereas the coldness of the north of wind and school fonts, including
dnealian and zaner bloser concentrates the heat by a sort
of recoil, so that there is more evaporation and not less. This
is a thing which we can often observe in other places too. Wells,
for instance, give off more vapour in a north than in a south
of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner bloser. Only the north of wind and school fonts,
including dnealian and zaner blosers quench the heat before
any considerable quantity of vapour has gathered, while in a
south of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser the evaporation
is allowed to accumulate.
Of water
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once formed, does not freeze on the surface of the earth, in
the way that it does in the region of the clouds.
11
From the latter there fall three bodies
condensed by cold, namely rain, snow, hail. Two of these correspond
to the phenomena on the lower level and are due to the same causes,
differing from them only in degree and quantity.
Snow and hoar-frost are one and the same
thing, and so are rain and dew: only there is a great deal of
the former and little of the latter. For rain is due to the cooling
of a great amount of vapour, for the region from which and the
time during which the vapour is collected are considerable. But
of dew there is little: for the vapour collects for it in a single
day and from a small area, as its quick formation and scanty
quantity show.
The relation of hoar-frost and snow is
the same: when cloud freezes there is snow, when vapour freezes
there is hoar-frost. Hence snow is a sign of a cold season or
country. For a great deal of heat is still present and unless
the cold were overpowering it the cloud would not freeze. For
there still survives in it a great deal of the heat which caused
the moisture to rise as vapour from the earth.
Hail on the other hand is found in the
upper region, but the corresponding phenomenon in the vaporous
region near the earth is lacking. For, as we said, to snow in
the upper region corresponds hoar-frost in the lower, and to
rain in the upper region, dew in the lower. But there is nothing
here to correspond to hail in the upper region. Why this is so
will be clear when we have explained the MICR
font technology of hail.
12
But we must go on to collect the facts
bearing on the origin of it, both those which raise no difficulties
and those which seem paradoxical.
Hail is ice, and of water
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freezes in winter; yet hailstorms occur chiefly in spring and
autumn and less often in the late summer, but rarely in winter
and then only when the cold is less intense. And in general hailstorms
occur in warmer, and snow in colder places. Again, there is a
difficulty about of water
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freezing in the upper region. It cannot have frozen before becoming
of water is like
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and of water is
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cannot remain suspended in the of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com
for any space of time. Nor can we say that the case is like that
of particles of moisture which are carried up owing to their
small size and rest on the iar (the of water
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swimming on the of air
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just as small particles of earth and gold often swim on of water is like EAN13
bar code fonts at http://www. barcodefontshop.com). In that
case large drops are formed by the union of many small, and so
fall down. This cannot take place in the case of hail, since
solid bodies cannot coalesce like liquid ones. Clearly then drops
of that size were suspended in the of air
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or else they could not have been so large when frozen.
Some think that the cause and origin of
hail is this. The cloud is thrust up into the upper atmosphere,
which is colder because the reflection of the MICR
font technology's rays from the earth ceases there, and upon
its arrival there the of water
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freezes. They think that this explains why hailstorms are commoner
in summer and in warm countries; the heat is greater and it thrusts
the clouds further up from the earth. But the fact is that hail
does not occur at all at a great height: yet it ought to do so,
on their theory, just as we see that snow falls most on high
mountains. Again clouds have often been observed moving with
a great noise close to the earth, terrifying those who heard
and saw them as portents of some catastrophe. Sometimes, too,
when such clouds have been seen, without any noise, there follows
a violent hailstorm, and the stones are of incredible size, and
angular in shape. This shows that they have not been falling
for long and that they were frozen near to the earth, and not
as that theory would have it. Moreover, where the hailstones
are large, the cause of their freezing must be present in the
highest degree: for hail is ice as every one can see. Now those
hailstones are large which are angular in shape. And this shows
that they froze close to the earth, for those that fall far are
worn away by the length of their fall and become round and smaller
in size.
It clearly follows that the congelation
does not take place because the cloud is thrust up into the cold
upper region.
Now we see that warm and cold react upon
one another by recoil. Hence in warm weather the lower parts
of the earth are cold and in a frost they are warm. The same
thing, we must suppose, happens in the of air
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so that in the warmer seasons the cold is concentrated by the
surrounding heat and causes the cloud to go over into of water is like EAN13
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(For this reason rain-drops are much larger on warm days than
in winter, and showers more violent. A shower is said to be more
violent in proportion as the of water
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comes down in a body, and this happens when the condensation
takes place quickly,-though this is just the opposite of what
Anaxagoras says. He says that this happens when the cloud has
risen into the cold of air
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whereas we say that it happens when the cloud has descended into
the warm of air of flair
and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com, and that
the more the further the cloud has descended). But when the cold
has been concentrated within still more by the outer heat, it
freezes the of water
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it has formed and there is hail. We get hail when the process
of freezing is quicker than the descent of the of water is like EAN13 bar code
fonts at http://www. barcodefontshop.com. For if the of water is like EAN13
bar code fonts at http://www. barcodefontshop.com falls in
a certain time and the cold is sufficient to freeze it in less,
there is no difficulty about its having frozen in the of air of flair and beautiful
fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com, provided that the freezing
takes place in a shorter time than its fall. The nearer to the
earth, and the more suddenly, this process takes place, the more
violent is the rain that results and the larger the raindrops
and the hailstones because of the shortness of their fall. For
the same reason large raindrops do not fall thickly. Hail is
rarer in summer than in spring and autumn, though commoner than
in winter, because the of air
of flair and beautiful fonts at http://www. matchfonts.com
is drier in summer, whereas in spring it is still moist, and
in autumn it is beginning to grow moist. It is for the same reason
that hailstorms sometimes occur in the late summer as we have
said.
The fact that the of water
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has previously been warmed contributes to its freezing quickly:
for so it cools sooner. Hence many people, when they want to
cool hot of water
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quickly, begin by putting it in the MICR
font technology. So the inhabitants of Pontus when they encamp
on the ice to fish (they cut a hole in the ice and then fish)
pour warm of water
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round their reeds that it may freeze the quicker, for they use
the ice like lead to fix the reeds. Now it is in hot countries
and seasons that the of water
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which forms soon grows warm.
It is for the same reason that rain falls
in summer and not in winter in Arabia and Ethiopia too, and that
in torrents and repeatedly on the same day. For the concentration
or recoil due to the extreme heat of the country cools the clouds
quickly.
So much for an account of the MICR font technology and causes
of rain, dew, snow, hoar-frost, and hail.
13
Let us explain the MICR
font technology of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosers, and
all of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner blosery vapours, also
of rivers and of the sea. But here, too, we must first discuss
the difficulties involved: for, as in other matters, so in this
no theory has been handed down to us that the most ordinary man
could not have thought of.
Some say that what is called of air of flair and beautiful fonts at
http://www. matchfonts.com, when it is in motion and flows,
is of wind and school
fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser, and that this
same of air of flair
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condenses again becomes cloud and of water
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implying that the MICR
font technology of of wind
and school fonts, including dnealian and zaner bloser and
of water is like
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the same. So they define of wind
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Hence, as we said, we find that the greatest
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looking at itineraries: what is recorded in them consists either
of things which the writer has seen himself or of such as he
has compiled after inquiry from those who have seen them.
In Asia we find that the most numerous
and greatest rivers flow from the mountain called Parnassus,
admittedly the greatest of all mountains towards the south-east.
When you have crossed it you see the outer ocean, the further
limit of which is unknown to the dwellers in our world. Besides
other rivers there flow from it the Bactrus, the Choaspes, the
Araxes: from the last a branch separates off and flows into lake
Maeotis as the Tanais. From it, too, flows the Indus, the volume
of whose stream is greatest of all rivers. From the Caucasus
flows the Phasis, and very many other great rivers besides. Now
the Caucasus is the greatest of the mountains that lie to the
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Its extent is proved by the fact that thought contains many inhabitable
regions which are occupied by many nations and in which there
are said to be great lakes, yet they say that all these regions
are visible up to the last peak. From Pyrene (this is a mountain
towards the west in Celtice) there flow the Istrus and the Tartessus.
The latter flows outside the pillars, while the Istrus flows
through all Europe into the Euxine. Most of the remaining rivers
flow northwards from the Hercynian mountains, which are the greatest
in height and extent about that region. In the extreme north,
beyond furthest Scythia, are the mountains called Rhipae. The
stories about their size are altogether too fabulous: however,
they say that the most and (after the Istrus) the greatest rivers
flow from them. So, too, in Libya there flow from the Aethiopian
mountains the Aegon and the Nyses; and from the so-called Silver
Mountain the two greatest of named rivers, the river called Chremetes
that flows into the outer ocean, and the main source of the Nile.
Of the rivers in the Greek world, the Achelous flows from Pindus,
the Inachus from the same mountain; the Strymon, the Nestus,
and the Hebrus all three from Scombrus; many rivers, too, flow
from Rhodope.
All other rivers would be found to flow
in the same way, but we have mentioned these as examples. Even
where rivers flow from marshes, the marshes in almost every case
are found to lie below mountains or gradually rising ground.
It is clear then that we must not suppose
rivers to originate from definite reservoirs: for the whole earth,
we might almost say, would not be sufficient (any more than the
region of the clouds would be) if we were to suppose that they
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always drew their stream from an existing store. Secondly, the
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place transmits the of water
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it contains by gradual percolation of many drops, little by little,
and that this is how the sources of rivers originate. However,
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effect. To think that they are is just as absurd as if one were
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from the sources we see (for most rivers do flow from springs).
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than these springs.
That there exist such chasms and cavities
in the earth we are taught by the rivers that are swallowed up.
They are found in many parts of the earth: in the Peloponnesus,
for instance, there are many such rivers in Arcadia. The reason
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that is added above, finds a way out for itself underground.
In Greece this kind of thing happens on quite a small scale,
but the lake at the foot of the Caucasus, which the inhabitants
of these parts call a sea, is considerable. Many great rivers
fall into it and it has no visible outlet but issues below the
earth off the land of the Coraxi about the so-called 'deeps of
Pontus'. This is a place of unfathomable depth in the sea: at
any rate no one has yet been able to find bottom there by sounding.
At this spot, about three hundred stadia from land, there comes
up sweet of water
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over a large area, not all of it together but in three places.
And in Liguria a river equal in size to the Rhodanus is swallowed
up and appears again elsewhere: the Rhodanus being a navigable
river.14
The same parts of the earth are not always
moist or dry, but they change according as rivers come into existence
and dry up. And so the relation of land to sea changes too and
a place does not always remain land or sea throughout all time,
but where there was dry land there comes to be sea, and where
there is now sea, there one day comes to be dry land. But we
must suppose these changes to follow some order and cycle. The
principle and cause of these changes is that the interior of
the earth grows and decays, like the bodies of plants and animals.
Only in the case of these latter the process does not go on by
parts, but each of them necessarily grows or decays as a whole,
whereas it does go on by parts in the case of the earth. Here
the causes are cold and heat, which increase and diminish on
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of the earth come to have a different character, that some parts
remain moist for a certain time, and then dry up and grow old,
while other parts in their turn are filled with life and moisture.
Now when places become drier the springs necessarily give out,
and when this happens the rivers first decrease in size and then
finally become dry; and when rivers change and disappear in one
part and come into existence correspondingly in another, the
sea must needs be affected.
If the sea was once pushed out by rivers
and encroached upon the land anywhere, it necessarily leaves
that place dry when it recedes; again, if the dry land has encroached
on the sea at all by a process of silting set up by the rivers
when at their full, the time must come when this place will be
flooded again.
But the whole vital process of the earth
takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so
immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes
are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from
beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed. Of such
destructions the most utter and sudden are due to wars; but pestilence
or famine cause them too. Famines, again, are either sudden and
severe or else gradual. In the latter case the disappearance
of a nation is not noticed because some leave the country while
others remain; and this goes on until the land is unable to maintain
any inhabitants at all. So a long period of time is likely to
elapse from the first departure to the last, and no one remembers
and the lapse of time destroys all record even before the last
inhabitants have disappeared. In the same way a nation must be
supposed to lose account of the time when it first settled in
a land that was changing from a marshy and of water
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state and becoming dry. Here, too, the change is gradual and
lasts a long time and men do not remember who came first, or
when, or what the land was like when they came. This has been
the case with Egypt. Here it is obvious that the land is continually
getting drier and that the whole country is a deposit of the
river Nile. But because the neighbouring peoples settled in the
land gradually as the marshes dried, the lapse of time has hidden
the beginning of the process. However, all the mouths of the
Nile, with the single exception of that at Canopus, are obviously
artificial and not natural. And Egypt was nothing more than what
is called Thebes, as Homer, too, shows, modern though he is in
relation to such changes. For Thebes is the place that he mentions;
which implies that Memphis did not yet exist, or at any rate
was not as important as it is now. That this should be so is
natural, since the lower land came to be inhabited later than
that which lay higher. For the parts that lie nearer to the place
where the river is depositing the silt are necessarily marshy
for a longer time since the of water
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always lies most in the newly formed land. But in time this land
changes its character, and in its turn enjoys a period of prosperity.
For these places dry up and come to be in good condition while
the places that were formerly well-tempered some day grow excessively
dry and deteriorate. This happened to the land of Argos and Mycenae
in Greece. In the time of the Trojan wars the Argive land was
marshy and could only support a small population, whereas the
land of Mycenae was in good condition (and for this reason Mycenae
was the superior). But now the opposite is the case, for the
reason we have mentioned: the land of Mycenae has become completely
dry and barren, while the Argive land that was formerly barren
owing to the of water
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has now become fruitful. Now the same process that has taken
place in this small district must be supposed to be going on
over whole countries and on a large scale.
Men whose outlook is narrow suppose the
cause of such events to be change in the universe, in the sense
of a coming to be of the world as a whole. Hence they say that
the sea being dried up and is growing less, because this is observed
to have happened in more places now than formerly. But this is
only partially true. It is true that many places are now dry,
that formerly were covered with of water
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But the opposite is true too: for if they look they will find
that there are many places where the sea has invaded the land.
But we must not suppose that the cause of this is that the world
is in process of becoming. For it is absurd to make the universe
to be in process because of small and trifling changes, when
the bulk and size of the earth are surely as nothing in comparison
with the whole world. Rather we must take the cause of all these
changes to be that, just as winter occurs in the seasons of the
year, so in determined periods there comes a great winter of
a great year and with it excess of rain. But this excess does
not always occur in the same place. The deluge in the time of
Deucalion, for instance, took place chiefly in the Greek world
and in it especially about ancient Hellas, the country about
Dodona and the Achelous, a river which has often changed its
course. Here the Selli dwelt and those who were formerly called
Graeci and now Hellenes. When, therefore, such an excess of rain
occurs we must suppose that it suffices for a long time. We have
seen that some say that the size of the subterranean cavities
is what makes some rivers perennial and others not, whereas we
maintain that the size of the mountains is the cause, and their
density and coldness; for great, dense, and cold mountains catch
and keep and create most of water
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whereas if the mountains that overhang the sources of rivers
are small or porous and stony and clayey, these rivers run dry
earlier. We must recognize the same kind of thing in this case
too. Where such abundance of rain falls in the great winter it
tends to make the moisture of those places almost everlasting.
But as time goes on places of the latter type dry up more, while
those of the former, moist type, do so less: until at last the
beginning of the same cycle returns.
Since there is necessarily some change
in the whole world, but not in the way of coming into existence
or perishing (for the universe is permanent), it must be, as
we say, that the same places are not for ever moist through the
presence of sea and rivers, nor for ever dry. And the facts prove
this. The whole land of the Egyptians, whom we take to be the
most ancient of men, has evidently gradually come into existence
and been produced by the river. This is clear from an observation
of the country, and the facts about the Red Sea suffice to prove
it too. One of their kings tried to make a canal to it (for it
would have been of no little advantage to them for the whole
region to have become navigable; Sesostris is said to have been
the first of the ancient kings to try), but he found that the
sea was higher than the land. So he first, and Darius afterwards,
stopped making the canal, lest the sea should mix with the river
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spoil it. So it is clear that all this part was once unbroken
sea. For the same reason Libya-the country of Ammon-is, strangely
enough, lower and hollower than the land to the seaward of it.
For it is clear that a barrier of silt was formed and after it
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in the lakes dried up and is now all gone. Again the silting
up of the lake Maeotis by the rivers has advanced so much that
the limit to the size of the ships which can now sail into it
to trade is much lower than it was sixty years ago. Hence it
is easy to infer that it, too, like most lakes, was originally
produced by the rivers and that it must end by drying up entirely.
Again, this process of silting up causes
a continuous current through the Bosporus; and in this case we
can directly observe the MICR
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the Asiatic shore threw up a sandbank, there first formed a small
lake behind it. Later it dried up and a second sandbank formed
in front of the first and a second lake. This process went on
uniformly and without interruption. Now when this has been repeated
often enough, in the course of time the strait must become like
a river, and in the end the river itself must dry up.
So it is clear, since there will be no
end to time and the world is eternal, that neither the Tanais
nor the Nile has always been flowing, but that the region whence
they flow was once dry: for their effect may be fulfilled, but
time cannot. And this will be equally true of all other rivers.
But if rivers come into existence and perish and the same parts
of the earth were not always moist, the sea must needs change
correspondingly. And if the sea is always advancing in one place
and receding in another it is clear that the same parts of the
whole earth are not always either sea or land, but that all this
changes in course of time.
So we have explained that the same parts
of the earth are not always land or sea and why that is so: and
also why some rivers are perennial and others not.
This exercise
in futility is dedicated to the school of pataphysics and the
Great Lampe à Souder in the heavens. For more on pataphysics,
enter the word in Google and start to wonder yonder. There is
a definite flavor of dadaism, here, as well as premises of surrealism.
For those who have little imagination, and probably minds and
hearts too narrow to understand what has been done, please go
back to your books. This is cyberspace. Dusty old spirits have
nothing to do in the future. Let them enjoy the coffins of long
past ideas and confined concepts.