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to India exceeds that from Aethiopia to Maeotis and the northernmost
Scythians by a ratio of more than 5 to 3, as far as such matters admit of
accurate statement. Yet we know the whole breadth of the region we dwell in
up to the uninhabited parts: in one direction no one lives because of the cold,
in the other because of the heat.
But it is the sea which divides as it seems the parts beyond India from those
beyond the Pillars of Heracles and prevents the earth from being inhabited all
round.
Now since there must be a region bearing the same relation to the southern
pole as the place we live in bears to our pole, it will clearly correspond in the
ordering of its winds as well as in other things. So just as we have a north
wind here, they must have a corresponding wind from the antarctic. This wind
cannot reach us since our own north wind is like a land breeze and does not
even reach the limits of the region we live in. The prevalence of north winds
here is due to our lying near the north. Yet even here they give out and fail to
penetrate far: in the southern sea beyond Libya east and west winds are
always blowing alternately, like north and south winds with us. So it is clear
that the south wind is not the wind that blows from the south pole. It is neither
that nor the wind from the winter tropic. For symmetry would require another
wind blowing from the summer tropic, which there is not, since we know that
only one wind blows from that quarter. So the south wind clearly blows from
the torrid region. Now the sun is so near to that region that it has no water, or
snow which might melt and cause Etesiae. But because that place is far more
extensive and open the south wind is greater and stronger and warmer than
the north and penetrates farther to the north than the north wind does to the
south.
The origin of these winds and their relation to one another has now been
explained.
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Let us now explain the position of the winds, their oppositions, which can
blow simultaneously with which, and which cannot, their names and number,
and any other of their affections that have not been treated in the âparticular
questionsâ. What we say about their position must be followed with the help
of the figure. For clearnessâ sake we have drawn the circle of the horizon,
which is round, but it represents the zone in which we live; for that can be
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- The Complete Aristotle
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- Date
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Table of contents
- 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