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Antiperistasis

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116:'Tis necessary that Cold and Heat be both of them endued with a self-invigorating Power, which each may exert when surrounded by its contrary; and thereby prevent their mutual Destruction. Thus it is supposed that in Summer, the Cold expelled from the Earth and Water by the Sun's scorching Beams, retires to the middle Region of the Air, and there defends itself against the Heat of the superior and inferior. And thus, also, in Summer, when the Air is about us in sultry hot, we find that Cellars and Vaults have the opposite Quality: so in Winter, when the external Air freezes the Lakes and Rivers, the internal Air, in the same Vaults and Cellars, becomes the Sanctuary of Heat; and Water, fresh drawn out of deeper Wells and Springs, in a cold Season, not only feels warm, but manifestly smokes. 1252: 236: 1263: 67:
pushing around in order to explain various phenomena. Plato, for instance, appeals to it to explain how respiration functions in human beings. His 'theory' has been most famously adopted by Aristotle who made popular the term antiperistasis. In a nutshell it was "the doctrine that a moving object,
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It was using this explanation that academic philosophers claimed that cold, on many occasions, increases a body's temperature, and dryness increases its moisture. Thus, it was said, quicklime (
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are hottest in the winter"; and the production of hail in the upper atmosphere, believed to occur only in the summer due to the increased heat of the
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which is no longer in touch with the mover, is moved by the medium through which it moves. Logically, it is connected to the idea that
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Historically, antiperistasis as a type of explanation was applied to numerous phenomena, from the interaction of
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Jan Opsomer, "Antiperistasis: A Platonic Theory," in: Jiménez, López, Aguilar (eds.),
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Plutarco, Platón y Aristóteles. Actas del V Congreso Internacional de la I.P.S
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were the results of antiperistasis caused by the coldness of the sky.
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Other examples used by the proponents of antiperistasis included the
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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
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Simplicius and Philoponus on the Authority of Aristotle
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antiperistalsis
philosophy
quicklime
thunder
lightning
Timaeus
Plato
void
Ca
O
exothermic reaction
wells
sensory adaptation
thunder
lightning
Peripatetic
Aristotle
aphoristical
Hippocrates
viscera
sun
Robert Boyle
Le Chatelier's principle
Homeostasis
Ancient Greek
public domain
Chambers, Ephraim
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
"Antiperistasis"
v

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