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Aristotle's Meteorology and its reception in the Arab world. By Paul Lettinck with an Edition and translation of Ibn Suwār's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bājja's commentary on the Meteorology, Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus Vol. 10. pp. ix, 505. Leiden, Brill, 1999.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

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8 I tried to prove this fact in a lecture delivered in Naples a long time ago. The acts of the conference have not yet been published.