Copernicus and Meteorology

Sep 25, 2015 - July 31, 2016

Astronomy, optics, chemistry and the Earth sciences are just a few of the disciplines once studied in close association with meteorology. Throughout history, meteorologists have adopted innovative methodologies to address emerging research problems that require multidisciplinary expertise.

1	Camille Flammarion, The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology (L’Atmosphere: Métérologie Populaire). Paris, 1888
2	Aristotle, Meteorology, 1556 (Meteorologicorum). Paris, 1556
3	Erasmus Reinhold, Demonstration of the Halo (Demonstratio halonis). Wittenberg, c. 1550
4	Pierre D’Ailly, Meteorology, 1506 (Meterororum). Leipzig, 1506
5	Seneca, Natural Questions (Naturalium quaestionum). Venice, 1522
6	Paracelsus, The Book of Meteorology (Das Büch Meteororum). Cologne, 1566
7	Paracelsus, Forecasts (Prognostication). Augsburg, 1536
8	René Descartes, On Meteorology (Les Météores). Leiden, 1637
9	Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1617 (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Amsterdam, 1617
10	Leonard Digges, A Prognostication Everlasting of Right Good Effect (Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne). London, 1605
11	Athanasius Kircher, Subterranean World (Mundus subterraneus). Amsterdam, 1665
12	Ruder Boscovich, On the Tornado (Sopra il Turbine). Rome, 1749
13	John P. Finley, Tornadoes: What they are and how to observe them ( ). New York, 1887
14	John Dalton, Meteorological Essays ( ). London, 1793
15	Alfred Wegener, The Origin of Continents and Oceans ( ). London, 1924

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