Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scholarship has attributed to Eustratios of Nicaea (c. 1050-c. 1120) a treatise on thunder and lightning, which discussed other cosmological, geographical and meteorological matters as well. The text was edited by Paola Polesso- Schiavon in 1965-1966, on the basis of two manuscripts (Parisinus gr. 1612 and Marcianus gr. III-4). Two other manuscripts (Laurentianus Mediceus Plut. VII.35 and British Library Add. 34060) show that the bishop was the author of the section on thunder and lightning only. Whereas Eustratios focused on these phenomena exclusively, his explanations were considerably more thorough than suggested in the original edition. The resulting text, written at the request of a patron, probably Maria of Alania, is strongly grounded in the Aristotelian tradition and didactic. Aristotle’s meteorological theory behind thunder and lightning is explained simply, and illustrated with many examples, some of them also borrowed from John Lydos’ Liber de ostensis. Beside a discussion of the authorship and the manuscript tradition, a commentary and an edition of the text are provided.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".