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Download or read book The Skies and Weather-Forecasts of Aratus (Classic Reprint) written by Solensis Aratus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Skies and Weather-Forecasts of Aratus Of the life of Aratus little is known. He was by profession a physician, and lived about 270 b.c., and was therefore a contemporary of Euclid and Theocritus. He was a native of Soli, afterwards called Pompeiopolis, in Cilicia; but being invited to the court of Antigonus Gonatas, King of Macedonia, he spent there the te mainder of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.