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finding the fire, for having gathered this, one must recall it. Hence, some hold the breath of the one being drawn in, for at the same time the interior is warmed and the sweat coming out resolves the fainting. It cools and heats in the shade or in the sun because the surroundings are colder; for the heat is pressed out more. Even the things in the earth are hotter in winter than in summer for the same reason, for that is where it boils over more. Why steaming is greater in summer than in winter. But water being heated does not boil over in the same way, and it is heated more in summer as a whole, because the boiling over is in the rejection of bubbles, and these cannot be lifted in the same way due to the coldness of the surrounding air. For this presses and, as it were, strikes against them. They collapse with difficulty and quickly at the same time, and become smaller in quantity and volume. In summer, it is the opposite. That the boiling over is strong and gathers the heat is a sign of things melting and breaking, like lead and cast metals, and whether lead is to be melted in the deep sea, when it is solid and winter is vigorous, or bronze is to be broken. This is clearly because the heat becomes vaporized as the heat is constricted and comes together. For the spirit, escaping, causes the breaking. And from the snow, the fermentation of the earth, and the generation of certain animals in the snow. Simply, the change of all things in the earth, beginning from the waters themselves, to the exhalation and the steam, is greater not only because of the gathering of the heat, but also because of the antiperistasis reaction, as it is re-moistened. This, then, is clear.