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hom-59	Martin, Craig	Experience of the New World and Aristotelian Revisions of the Earth’s Climates during the Renaissance	2006	16	.pdf	application/pdf	9053	357	46	This discovery demonstrated the unsound nature of Aristotle’s view that there exists an uninhabitable “torrid zone” in the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. In fact, during the first decades of the sixteenth century, commentators on Aristotle, such as Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo, were informed, through sailors’ reports, of travels in southern regions and, as a result, questioned the existence of a torrid zone.	cache/hom-59.pdf	txt/hom-59.txt