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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

New Books in History

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Medieval Meteorology Unveiled

This chapter features a discussion with a history professor about her latest book on medieval meteorology, linking ancient celestial studies to weather forecasting. It highlights the crucial contributions of Arabic scholarship to the evolution of meteorological knowledge and challenges traditional historical narratives.

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