Physical science in the time of Nero : $b being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of SenecaSeneca, Lucius Annaeus
Philosophy
Physical science in the time of Nero : $b being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Comets; Earthquakes; Meteorology -- Early works to 1800
173, 19, nor yet the Caÿstrus nor the Caÿstrus which lies
... deep. beneath Mount Tmolus
increases in summer, and
yet deep snow lies there
constantly as is natural
in those northern regions.
“_Tmolo_” is an ingenious
and probable emendation.
IV. 186, 1, no one ... virtuous. by which one may become
only more lettered and
not more virtuous.
VI. 232, 2, and, generally if the boats are unduly
speaking ... sunk, the water uses the
whole force of the burthens
it upbears, in order
either to pour over them,
or at any rate to rise to
an unwonted height to
right and left.
244, (c. xv.) to hurry to blow where it lists.
straight forward.
258, 2, philosophers. scholars, [or philologists].
265, 2, (c. xxxi.) soft mate- walls undergo more frequent
rials ... hard. but more gentle shocks
than the nature of hard
material allows.
VII. 296, 4, every star cannot but no star can traverse its
the zodiac, then I say a
comet may have a different
kind of orbit and yet
some point in it may coincide
with the zodiac.
INDEX TO THE “QUAESTIONES NATURALES”
^_a_ prefixed to a name indicates authorities used by Seneca.
^_a_ Academy, 307. School and followers of Plato.
Achaia, 142, 224, 225, 235, 288 (adj.), 303. District in N.W. of
southern part of Greece (Morea).
Actors, regard for, 307.
Adriatic, 153.
Adversity, to be faced with joy, 111, 112.
Aegean (Sea), 73, 252. Eastern part of the Mediterranean.
Aegium, 257 (2). A leading town in Achaia on the Gulf of Corinth.
^_a_ Aeschylus, 172.
Africa, 117, 212, 236, 263.
Africus (Wind), 210.
Air, tension of, 58;
wide diffusion of, 60;
transformed into water, 119, 121;
transformed into fire, 120, 121, 205;
kindled by friction, 205, 206, 277;
kindled within the earth, 236, 251;
the cause of earthquakes, 239–48, 251, 254, 255;
enters interior of earth, 254, 255.
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