Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on the Books of Meteorology - Volume III - Manuel de Góis

Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on the Books of Meteorology, Volume III by Manuel de Góis is a scholastic Aristotelian commentary that examines Aristotle’s Meteorologica within the Coimbra Jesuit tradition. It forms part of the Conimbricenses series, which systematized Aristotelian natural philosophy for academic instruction.

A central concern of the volume is the explanation of sublunary natural phenomena. Góis analyzes topics such as weather, winds, rain, lightning, comets, earthquakes, and other atmospheric or terrestrial effects, interpreting them through Aristotelian principles of matter, causality, and natural motion.

The work also addresses interpretive difficulties in Aristotle’s text and engages alternative scholastic explanations of meteorological phenomena. Overall, it provides a systematic natural-philosophical account of the changing and complex processes of the sublunar world within the Aristotelian scholastic framework.