Concept
Water cycle
Overview
continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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Yet if one consider the subject attentively, this does not prove the necessity of a rising motion, nor refute the notion of a progressive motion. For the motion may be progressive, and yet inundate the opposite shores of a channel at the same time; as if the waters be forced and driven together from some other quarter, for instance, which takes place in rivers, for they flow and ebb toward each bank at the same…
Francis Bacon, Novum organum
Close in meaning to Water cycle; the term itself is not named.
In this region the surface is giving off water in the state of vapour; in that, dew is being precipitated; and in the other rain is descending—differences that arise from the ever-changing ratio between the absorption and radiation of heat in each place. At one hour, a rapid fall in temperature leads to the formation of ice, with an accompanying expansion throughout the moist bodies frozen; while at another, a thaw…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
Close in meaning to Water cycle; the term itself is not named.
Thus water is set in motion by the moon-sphere, fire by the sun-sphere, air by the other planets, which move in many and different courses with retrogressions, progressions, and stations, and therefore produce the various forms of the air with its frequent changes, contractions, and expansions; the sphere of the other stars, namely, the fixed stars, sets earth in motion; and it may be that on this account, viz., on…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Water cycle; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Water cycle
Related ideas
- Evaporation
- Anaximander
- Greenland
- Homer
- Hydrosphere
- Meteorology (Aristotle)
- Anaxagoras
- Warring States period
- Diogenes of Apollonia
- Xenophanes
- Plato
- Ancient Near East
- Works and Days
- Aristotle
- Water
- Ramayana
- Condensation
- Earth
- Athanasius Kircher
- Ecosystem
- Wang Chong
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximenes of Miletus.