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Quotation from Meteorology by Aristotle
“Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment”
Meteorology, Book II, Part 3, trans. E. W. Webster (1923)
A rare first-person appeal to a trial in support of the claim that the sun draws up only fresh water from the sea.
Citation: "Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment" — Aristotle, Meteorology, Book II, Part 3, trans. E. W. Webster (1923). (id aristotle-meteorology-q6)
