'Milieu' and 'ambience': An Essay in Historical Semantics

abstract according aetherial air de cour ambient medium ambiente ambire ambitu ancient appears Aristotelian Aristotle atmosphere attested Baggesen body c'est century Cicero circonstances circum circunstancia climate concept connotation continet corps cosmology d'une Dante Descartes Edmond de Goncourt element English environment ether example expression extérieur fait feeling fluide following passage forces French word German Goethe Goncourt Greek Heidegger Hippocrates Husserl idea imaginarius infinite influence Italian l'air l'homme language Latin Lebensraum Leibniz LEO SPITZER lieu loco locus Luft meaning medieval medio mentalité mezzo Michaëlsson Middle Ages milieu ambiant milieu intérieur modern Molière monde moyen nature neuter Newton Opticks originally perhaps philosophy phrase physicists physics qu'il quod reference Renaissance represents Romans Sainte-Beuve says social soul space Spanish spiritual substance suggest surrounding Taine Tainian term theory things Thomas Aquinas tion tout translation Umwelt universe verb Welt word milieu ἀὴρ καὶ περιέχειν πνεῦμα τὸ περιέχον τοῦ