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fumes, but vapour. Sweet wine does give off fumes, for it contains fat and
behaves like oil. It does not solidify under the influence of cold and it is apt to
burn. Really it is not wine at all in spite of its name: for it does not taste like
wine and consequently does not inebriate as ordinary wine does. It contains
but little fumigable stuff and consequently is inflammable.
All bodies are combustible that dissolve into ashes, and all bodies do this
that solidify under the influence either of heat or of both heat and cold; for we
find that all these bodies are mastered by fire. Of stones the precious stone
called carbuncle is least amenable to fire.
Of combustible bodies some are inflammable and some are not, and some
of the former are reduced to coals. Those are called ‘inflammable’ which
produce flame and those which do not are called ‘non-inflammable’. Those
fumigable bodies that are not liquid are inflammable, but pitch, oil, wax are
inflammable in conjunction with other bodies rather than by themselves. Most
inflammable are those bodies that give off smoke. Of bodies of this kind those
that contain more earth than smoke are apt to be reduced to coals. Some
bodies that can be melted are not inflammable, e.g. copper; and some bodies
that cannot be melted are inflammable, e.g. wood; and some bodies can be
melted and are also inflammable, e.g. frankincense. The reason is that wood
has its moisture all together and this is continuous throughout and so it burns
up: whereas copper has it in each part but not continuous, and insufficient in
quantity to give rise to flame. In frankincense it is disposed in both of these
ways. Fumigable bodies are inflammable when earth predominates in them
and they are consequently such as to be unable to melt. These are
inflammable because they are dry like fire. When this dry comes to be hot
there is fire. This is why flame is burning smoke or dry exhalation. The fumes
of wood are smoke, those of wax and frankincense and such-like, and pitch
and whatever contains pitch or such-like are sooty smoke, while the fumes of
oil and oily substances are a greasy steam; so are those of all substances
which are not at all combustible by themselves because there is too little of
the dry in them (the dry being the means by which the transition to fire is
effected), but burn very readily in conjunction with something else. (For the
fat is just the conjunction of the oily with the dry.) So those bodies that give
off fumes, like oil and pitch, belong rather to the moist, but those that burn to
the dry.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156