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  1   I,  1 |    affections we may call common to air and water, and the kinds
  2   I,  2 |         These four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies
  3   I,  2 |            relation to one another, air being nearest to fire, water
  4   I,  3 |      phenomena akin to these.~Fire, air, water, earth, we assert,
  5   I,  3 |        raised by what is called the air. What are we to take its
  6   I,  3 |             the earth and the stars air: but if they had considered
  7   I,  3 |        simply be said to be full of air either; for even if there
  8   I,  3 |          earth and the heavens, the air would far exceed the quantitu
  9   I,  3 |          where water dissolves into air or air into fire. Whereas
 10   I,  3 |         water dissolves into air or air into fire. Whereas the proportion
 11   I,  3 |           quantity of water and the air that is generated from it
 12   I,  3 |         between the total amount of air and the total amount of
 13   I,  3 |            it is clear that neither air nor fire alone fills the
 14   I,  3 |        relation of the two elements air and fire to the position
 15   I,  3 |           Let us first treat of the air, as we proposed, and then
 16   I,  3 |             water is generated from air, and air from water, why
 17   I,  3 |             generated from air, and air from water, why are clouds
 18   I,  3 |             not formed in the upper air? They ought to form there
 19   I,  3 |           either that it is not all air which water is generated,
 20   I,  3 |             it is produced from all air alike, that what immediately
 21   I,  3 |     surrounds the earth is not mere air, but a sort of vapour, and
 22   I,  3 |            is vapour, the amount of air and of water will be disproportionately
 23   I,  3 | Consequently, what fills it must be air and the water that surrounds
 24   I,  3 |             both from fire and from air, but varying degree of purity
 25   I,  3 |            limit on the side of the air, and of the world surrounding
 26   I,  3 |           and contiguous with them, air and what we commonly call
 27   I,  3 |            reality, of what we call air, the part surrounding the
 28   I,  3 |             is filled not with mere air but rather with a sort of
 29   I,  3 |            circular motion. For the air round the earth is necessarily
 30   I,  3 |            heaven which carries the air with it and causes its circular
 31   I,  3 |          with the upper element and air with fire. Thus its motion
 32   I,  3 |            a second reason why that air is not condensed into water.~
 33   I,  3 |          But whenever a particle of air grows heavy, the warmth
 34   I,  3 |            region is always full of air and the other of fire, and
 35   I,  3 |          are not formed and why the air is not condensed into water,
 36   I,  3 |            dissolve and inflame the air; indeed, moving bodies are
 37   I,  3 |            for here, too, it is the air that is nearest to a thing
 38   I,  3 |        expect, as it is the nearest air that is most dissolved by
 39   I,  3 |            the fire surrounding the air is often scattered by the
 40   I,  4 |            bodies. Below this comes air. We must think of what we
 41   I,  4 |      exhalation. At other times the air is condensed by cold and
 42   I,  4 |             and condensation of the air. Further, all these things
 43   I,  5 |            have seen that the upper air condenses into an inflammable
 44   I,  5 |           surprising that this same air when condensing should assume
 45   I,  5 |             shining through a dense air, and the air when it acts
 46   I,  5 |        through a dense air, and the air when it acts as a mirror,
 47   I,  5 |             the condensation of the air is transient.~"Chasms" get
 48   I,  5 |          dark blue or black mass of air. When the process of condensation
 49   I,  7 |             and a great part of the air that is continuous with
 50   I,  7 |             encircle them, when the air is dense enough for them
 51   I,  7 |           that secretion. Hence the air is necessarily drier and
 52   I,  8 |          part of what is called the air is potentially fire and
 53   I,  8 |             that therefore when the air is dissolved by motion,
 54   I,  8 |         reflection from it when the air is of the right constitution.
 55   I,  9 |          region common to water and air, and the processes attending
 56   I,  9 |        rising so far into the upper air, then the vapour cools because
 57   I,  9 |      condenses again and turns from air into water. And after the
 58   I,  9 |      exhalation of water is vapour: air condensing into water is
 59   I,  9 |        circle and made up partly of air, partly of water. When the
 60   I,  10|           is that the motion of the air is more pronounced at a
 61   I,  12|             remain suspended in the air for any space of time. Nor
 62   I,  12|           the water swimming on the air just as small particles
 63   I,  12|          size were suspended in the air or else they could not have
 64   I,  12|             suppose, happens in the air, so that in the warmer seasons
 65   I,  12|             has risen into the cold air; whereas we say that it
 66   I,  12|             descended into the warm air, and that the more the further
 67   I,  12|            its having frozen in the air, provided that the freezing
 68   I,  12|         than in winter, because the air is drier in summer, whereas
 69   I,  13|             say that what is called air, when it is in motion and
 70   I,  13|            wind, and that this same air when it condenses again
 71   I,  13|             wind as a motion of the air. Hence some, wishing to
 72   I,  13|           are one wind, because the air that moves is in fact all
 73   I,  13|           the region from which the air may happen to flow on each
 74   I,  13|             to refuse to admit that air becomes water in the earth
 75   I,  13|            cold causes the vaporous air to condense into water above
 76  II,  2 |           the upper region; that of air occupies the place next
 77  II,  2 |            that is by the sphere of air, and that again by the sphere
 78  II,  2 |           warmed by the sun, and so air was generated and the whole
 79  II,  2 |             firmament grew, and the air caused winds and solstices.
 80  II,  2 |            distinguish between some air which preserves its character
 81  II,  3 |           in continual change, like air and sweet water and fire?
 82  II,  4 |      maintain that one and the same air when in motion is wind,
 83  II,  4 |           condenses again is water. Air, as we have explained in
 84  II,  4 |             contributes a part, and air is moist and hot. It is
 85  II,  4 |              It is absurd that this air that surrounds us should
 86  II,  4 |          winds; a great quantity of air might be moved by the fall
 87  II,  4 |         because all the surrounding air follows the motion of the
 88  II,  4 |           feel the wind blowing the air betrays its presence if
 89  II,  6 |            and gathers the vaporous air, and because it is easterly
 90  II,  7 |         that the earth rests on the air because of its size, and
 91  II,  8 |              In time of drought the air is full of wind; drought
 92  II,  8 |            from what happens in the air (where one might suppose
 93  II,  8 |          through the earth into the air and appeared visibly like
 94  II,  8 |         generated in the earth: the air is first broken up in small
 95  II,  8 |   proportion to the quantity of the air that is being driven on
 96  II,  8 |          dissolves and rarefies the air begins to withdraw into
 97  II,  8 |            hot, because it sets the air in motion, and that is full
 98  II,  8 |             the wind is leaving the air and dying down. Something
 99  II,  8 |           the wind is to the cloudy air; so, when the wind drops,
100  II,  8 |            sort of wave-mark in the air.~An earthquake sometimes
101  II,  8 |             quite vanished from the air but is dying away, the wind
102  II,  8 |          restrained and quieted the air weakens and the air moves
103  II,  8 |             the air weakens and the air moves again and a wind rises,
104  II,  8 |   earthquake following. Just as the air gives off various sounds
105  II,  8 |             the evaporations in the air the sun has more influence
106  II,  9 |        caught in the process as the air cools, it is squeezed out
107 III,  1 |            colours the neighbouring air and inflames it.~When there
108 III,  1 |             seen moving through the air away and falling on the
109 III,  2 |             sight is reflected from air and any object with a smooth
110 III,  3 |          reflected in this way when air and vapour are condensed
111 III,  3 |         fine weather because if the air is not yet in a state to
112 III,  3 |            the condensations of the air more rapidly.~Haloes are
113 III,  4 |        smooth surfaces, such as are air and water among others.
114 III,  4 |             and water among others. Air must be condensed if it
115 III,  4 |          weak and delicate that the air close by acted as a mirror,
116 III,  4 |            as distant and condensed air normally does, and his sight
117 III,  4 |             is a better mirror than air, for each of the particles,
118 III,  4 |            point of raining and the air in the clouds is in process
119 III,  4 |         distance; in the other from air which is nearer and lighter
120 III,  4 |             to the moistness of the air and the soot which the flame
121 III,  4 |            and which mixes with the air and makes it a mirror, and
122 III,  6 |          contrary, appears when the air is very uniform, and of
123 III,  6 |         more than they do, that the air is ripe for the production
124 III,  6 |           one to the north, for the air in the south is readier
125  IV,  1 |      putrefy; for earth, water, and air putrefy, being all of them
126  IV,  1 |           in winter the surrounding air and water contain but little
127  IV,  1 |        greater that the heat of the air and so is not mastered,
128  IV,  1 |        putrefy, for the heat in the air being less than that in
129  IV,  1 |           set up by the heat in the air is weaker than that pre-existing
130  IV,  4 |            in them alone and not in air or fire.~Of the qualities
131  IV,  7 |        reason is that it is full of air (hence it floats on the
132  IV,  7 |             the top of water, since air tends to rise). Cold thickens
133  IV,  7 |          thickens it by turning the air in it into water, for any
134  IV,  7 |            due to the change of the air into water as the heat in
135  IV,  7 |             but because it contains air. Its glutinous nature prevents
136  IV,  7 |          thickens things by turning air into water. (Solidifying,
137  IV,  7 |            of earth or of water and air: honey of earth, while oil
138  IV,  7 |           earth, while oil contains air. Milk and blood, too, are
139  IV,  7 |          Wood consists of earth and air and is therefore combustible
140  IV,  7 |          contain a preponderance of air, but in black ebony the
141  IV,  7 |              but in black ebony the air has escaped and so earth
142  IV,  8 |             have a preponderance of air, like oil and quicksilver,
143  IV,  9 |            tending to the nature of air produced from a liquid by
144  IV,  9 |         secretions of the nature of air by the lapse of time: as
145  IV,  9 |             is a continuous flow of air in a given direction). Fumes
146  IV,  10|          like milk, or of earth and air, like wood, or of water
147  IV,  10|          like wood, or of water and air, like oil. Those liquids
148  IV,  10|           up of earth and water and air. If the blood contains fibres,
149  IV,  11|           of fire), but if earth or air it tends to be warm.~It