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grbs-15853	Valente, Stefano	The Doctrine of Winds in Blemmydes: On the Reception of Aristotelian Meteorology in the Palaeologan Age	2016	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6040	334	71	It is the second book of Nikephoros Blemmydes’ philosophical compen- dium (Εἰσαγωγικὴ ἐπιτοµή, Introductory compendium), a course- book written mainly as a teaching tool.5 The Epitome contains a 2 Lackner, in Actes XIV 640 n.10: “In einer demnächst abgeschlossenen Monographie des Verf. [Vatican City 1937] 428–440); Lackner (n.3 above); C. N. Con- stantinides, Higher Education in Byzantium in the Thirteenth and Early Fourtheenth Centuries (Nicosia 1982) 6 ff.; D. Stiernon, “Nicéphore Blemmydès,” Diction- naire de spiritualité 11 (1982) 187–198; J. A. Munitiz, Nikephoros Blemmydes, A STEFANO VALENTE 233 ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017) 231–247 straightforward presentation on physics, meteorology, and astronomy: Aristotle and his commentators were the main sources for the chapters on physics (1–12) and meteorology (12–23), Cleomedes’ On Heaven for the astronomical part (24– 31).	cache/grbs-15853.pdf	txt/grbs-15853.txt