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1 I, 1 | discussed the first causes of nature, and all natural motion, 2 I, 3 | What are we to take its nature to be in the world surrounding 3 I, 3 | motion was also divine in nature; and, as such a body was 4 I, 3 | vapour, and that its vaporous nature is the reason why it condenses 5 I, 4 | One kind is rather of the nature of vapour, the other of 6 I, 4 | vapour, the other of the nature of a windy exhalation. That 7 I, 6 | us go on to explain the nature of comets and the "milky 8 I, 8 | explain the origin, cause, and nature of the milky way. And here 9 I, 11| when we have explained the nature of hail.~ 10 I, 12| much for an account of the nature and causes of rain, dew, 11 I, 13| 13~Let us explain the nature of winds, and all windy 12 I, 13| water, implying that the nature of wind and water is the 13 I, 13| investigation is this: the nature of wind and how it originates, 14 I, 14| can directly observe the nature of the process. Whenever 15 II, 1 | 1~LET us explain the nature of the sea and the reason 16 II, 2 | first conception of the nature of the sea.~The earth is 17 II, 2 | is the regular course of nature.~Hence all my predecessors 18 II, 3 | dry exhalation is of this nature, and it is the dry exhalation 19 II, 3 | a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their 20 II, 3 | they change, what their nature is, and have explained most 21 II, 4 | on.~We have explained the nature and origin of wind, the 22 II, 6 | winds, their origin and nature and the properties common 23 II, 8 | explained earthquakes, their nature and cause, and the most 24 II, 9 | other phenomena of the same nature.~So much for thunder and 25 III, 2 | 2~Let us now explain the nature and cause of halo, rainbow, 26 III, 4 | mirror derives from the smoky nature of the soot. The light of 27 III, 4 | and make the shadow. Its nature and colour is like that 28 III, 6 | earth.~Just as its twofold nature gives rise to various effects 29 IV, 1 | destruction, when a thing’s nature is perverted). Hence everything, 30 IV, 1 | with it.~So much for the nature of becoming and of destruction.~ 31 IV, 2 | end of the process is the nature of the thing-nature, that 32 IV, 2 | it a thing maintains its nature. Hence things like the liquid 33 IV, 2 | drier.~This then is the nature of concoction: but inconcoction 34 IV, 3 | dense. In this process the nature of the thing that is ripening 35 IV, 3 | as we said, is found in nature too. The affections produced 36 IV, 3 | a name; for art imitates nature. For instance, the concoction 37 IV, 4 | predominates determines the nature of the body; thus some bodies 38 IV, 4 | Empedocles said in his poem on Nature, "glueing meal together 39 IV, 7 | contain more earth.~The nature of oil presents the greatest 40 IV, 7 | contains air. Its glutinous nature prevents it from giving 41 IV, 7 | sediment is left this is of the nature of earth. Some of these 42 IV, 7 | for such blood is of the nature of serum and that is phlegm 43 IV, 7 | is phlegm and water, the nature of the animal having failed 44 IV, 8 | us go on to explain the nature of each of them. We have 45 IV, 9 | secretion tending to the nature of air produced from a liquid 46 IV, 9 | give off secretions of the nature of air by the lapse of time: 47 IV, 10| do not are either of the nature of earth, or a mixture either 48 IV, 10| thickened by cold are of the nature of earth; those that are 49 IV, 12| this we must describe the nature of flesh, bone, and the 50 IV, 12| elements, and all the works of nature in turn of the homogeneous 51 IV, 12| matter, but their essential nature is determined by their definition. 52 IV, 12| the nonhomogeneous bodies nature or some other cause.~Since,