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Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac

Lawrence-Mathers, Anne·2019·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/9781108289948
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The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread and flourished from c.700–c.1600, this study reveals the dramatic changes in forecasting and how the new science of 'astro-meteorology' developed. Both narrower and more practical in its approach than earlier forms of meteorology, this new science claimed to deliver weather forecasts for months and even years ahead, on the premise that weather is caused by the atmospheric effects of the planets and stars, and mediated by local and seasonal climatic conditions. Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores how these forecasts were made and explains the growing practice of recording actual weather. These records were used to support forecasting practices, and their popularity grew from the fourteenth century onwards. Essential reading for anyone interested in medieval science, Medieval Meteorology demonstrates that the roots of scientific forecasting are much deeper than is usually recognized.

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  • Richard of Fournival's horoscope displays tropical longitudes that were computed with the help of the Tables of Toulouse, a Christian adaptation of the Toledan Tables popular in thirteenth-century France.

    “It displays tropical longitudes that were computed with the help of the Tables of Toulouse, a Christian adaptation of the Toledan Tables popular in thirteenth -century France”

    From Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition (2022) · cites this paper as [98]

  • As with the original Toledan Tables, the Tables of Toulouse operated with a sidereal year, which means that Richard's decision to cast a tropical horoscope required him to add the equation of the eighth sphere to any longitudes derived from his tables.

    “As with the original Toledan Tables, the Tables of Toulouse operated with a sidereal year, which means that Richard's decision to cast a tropical horoscope required him to add the equation of the eighth sphere to any longitudes derived from his tables”

    From Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition (2022) · cites this paper as [98]

  • A well-known horoscope from the following century is the one Richard of Fournival cast for his own nativity (10 October 1201) at some point before 22 October 1239.

    “A well -known horoscope from the following century is the one Richard of Fournival cast for his own nativity (10 October 1201) at some point before 2 2 October 1239”

    From Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition (2022) · cites this paper as [98]

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Lawrence-Mathers, A.
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2019-11-08
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10.1017/9781108289948
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Keywords
medieval meteorology, weather forecasting, seasonal climate, weather records, history of meteorology, medieval science

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