“Ancient meteorology covered a much broader field than its modern counterpart.” The difference from the modern era lies in lumping versus splitting areas of historic inquiry, including what today would be seen as culture versus nature: it is a much more holistic vision. Thus, Roger French writes, “The people whom scientific historians see as practising science in the more or less distant past . . . called it philosophy and strove rather to stress the unity of knowledge than the separateness of its parts. Part of it was concerned with the natural world, but this part was not marked off from the others by any strict boundaries.”6”