06-04-2016, 12:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2016, 01:00 PM by VViews.
Edit Reason: misquoted- corrected
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This image, from a late 13th C version of Aristotle's Meteora, shows an unidentified animal in clouds as a cause of meteors.
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I know its not much of a match, but thought it was interesting, among all the other possibilities.
ETA: The above creature may be some kind of goat, I guess, since St Thomas Aquinas, in his commentary on Aristotle's Meteora, explains that meteors were called goats (source: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. )
Aristotle:
"38 Having determined these principles let us explain the cause of the appearance in the sky of burning flames and of shooting-stars, and of 'torches', and 'goats', as some people call them
42.Now when the inflammable material is longer than it is broad sometimes it seems to throw off sparks as it burns. (This happens because matter catches fire at the sides in small portions but continuously with the main body.) Then it is called a 'goat'"
Thomas:
"For if the aforesaid matter is more in length than in width, and when it burns, the fire "scintillates," i.e., seems to leap and run about like "aeges," i.e., goats (which happens because not all the matter begins to be ignited at once but according to certain small sections, beginning from some starting-point in the matter), when, I say, this happens, it is called "aeges," i.e., a goat."
And edited again to add:
Meteors can contain peridot (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ), a gem that is used in jewelry... hence the lady with the ring beneath it, perhaps?
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I know its not much of a match, but thought it was interesting, among all the other possibilities.
ETA: The above creature may be some kind of goat, I guess, since St Thomas Aquinas, in his commentary on Aristotle's Meteora, explains that meteors were called goats (source: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. )
Aristotle:
"38 Having determined these principles let us explain the cause of the appearance in the sky of burning flames and of shooting-stars, and of 'torches', and 'goats', as some people call them
42.Now when the inflammable material is longer than it is broad sometimes it seems to throw off sparks as it burns. (This happens because matter catches fire at the sides in small portions but continuously with the main body.) Then it is called a 'goat'"
Thomas:
"For if the aforesaid matter is more in length than in width, and when it burns, the fire "scintillates," i.e., seems to leap and run about like "aeges," i.e., goats (which happens because not all the matter begins to be ignited at once but according to certain small sections, beginning from some starting-point in the matter), when, I say, this happens, it is called "aeges," i.e., a goat."
And edited again to add:
Meteors can contain peridot (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ), a gem that is used in jewelry... hence the lady with the ring beneath it, perhaps?


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