Weather IQ: Why is it called Meteorology?

The study of weather and the Earth’s atmosphere is called Meteorology. But where does the meteor-part stem from?

The term Meteorology has quite the history deriving from the Greek word meteoron which means any phenomenon that is high in the sky.

Around 340 BC, the famous philosopher Aristotle wrote a treatise called Meteorologica. This is the first record of the study of what’s in the sky and was accepted as an accurate weather theory for nearly 2000 years. But by the 17th century, scientific Meteorology was born.

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I thought meteorology meant studying meteors till i knew this