Aristotle's Theory of the Formation of Metals and Minerals

Classical Quarterly 43 (3-4):141-146 (1949)
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The Twofold Exhalation. Aristotle explains in Book I of the Meteorologica that the heat of the sun causes the earth to give off an exhalation, which is of two kinds. One kind, derived from the moisture within the earth and on its surface, is a moist vapour, ‘potentially like water’ ; the other, which comes from the earth itself, is hot, dry, and smoky, highly combustible ‘like a fuel’, ‘the most inflammable of substances’, ‘potentially like fire’, and compounded of Air and Earth.

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