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in the interior of a mountain caused volcanic eruptions. Winds and waters present at the foot of the mountain could set fire to this sulfur, particularly in the case of
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in the twelfth century. By the thirteenth century, it had become one of the three main sources for medieval knowledge on geology, together with Aristotle's
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is associated with this process, because together with sulfur it forms a kind of burner to transport fuel to the fire.
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Vermij, Rienk (1998). "Subterranean Fire. Changing Theories of the Earth during the Renaissance".
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Aristoteles Arabus: The Oriental Translations and Commentaries of the Aristotelian Corpus
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Its explanation of hot springs seems to have been taken by an unknown work from
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was not written by Aristotle, it was removed from the academic curriculum.
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author. Consequently, the work is now attributed to a
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Index

Medieval
Arabic
geology
Aristotle
Arab
Pseudo-Aristotle
science in the medieval Islamic world
Latin
Gerard of Cremona
Meteorology
Avicenna
Albertus Magnus
the Renaissance
volcanoes
hot springs
sulfur
Mount Etna
Theophrastus
Democritus
Thales
Xenophanes
Naphtha



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