* Astronomy

Why is the study of the weather confusingly known as meteorology? We can blame Aristotle, who wrote a book on the weather describing the interplay of the elements. It covered the action of the sun causing vapours to rise up from the earth and the sea, so he entitled it Meteorology from the word meteoros meaning "raised up high". Meteoro-logica is "the discussion of high things".
In Aristotle's world view, these high things included everything below the sphere of the moon and above the earth, a space with air and fire and various moist or dry vapours
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