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Quotation from Meteorology by Aristotle
“the relation of land to sea changes too and a place does not always remain land or sea throughout all time”
Meteorology, Book I, Part 14, trans. E. W. Webster (1923)
The thesis of the chapter on long-term geological change, which Aristotle attributes to cycles of moisture and drying rather than to the world's coming to be.
Citation: "the relation of land to sea changes too and a place does not always remain land or sea throughout all time" — Aristotle, Meteorology, Book I, Part 14, trans. E. W. Webster (1923). (id aristotle-meteorology-q2)
