Earthquakes were attributed to the earth breaking wind like a living body

Evidence

The tendency for both to break wind caused earthquakes in the case of the former and another type of quake in the latter: The material cause of earthquakes . — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 141

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stoics held the whole earth organism alive and breathing — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 136; The womb analogy was the dominant metaphor for earth’s mineral generation — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 143

Broader Connections

• Stoics held the whole earth organism alive and breathing #expands (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 136
• The womb analogy was the dominant metaphor for earth’s mineral generation #corroborates (0.70) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 143