A survey of what Arabic scholars have written on the subjects treated in Aristotle's "Meteorology," It is investigated how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. Also, two Arabic treatises are edited and translated.

Paul Lettinck, Ph.D. (1973) in physics and (1991) in Semitic languages, Free University, Amsterdam. He teaches History of Islamic Science at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur. He has published a study on the reception of Aristotle's Physics in the Arabic world. (Brill, 1994).