Plutarch, Sentiments concerning Nature

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Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted

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Book i.

It being our determination to discourse of natural philosophy, we judge it necessary, in the first place and chiefly, to divide the body of philosophy

Chapter xxviii.

Book ii.

Having finished my dissertation concerning principles and elements and those things which chiefly appertain to them, i will turn my pen to discourse o

Chapter xxviii.

Book iii.

In my two precedent treatises having in due order taken a compendious view and given an account of the celestial bodies, and of the moon which stands

Book iv.

Having taken a survey of the general parts of the world, i will take a view of the particular members of it.

Book v

Chapter xxviii.

Chapter X.

Of the Figure of the Earth.

Thales, the Stoics, and their followers say that the earth is globular. Anaximander, that it resembles a smooth stony pillar. Anaximenes, that it hath the shape of a table. Leucippus, of a drum. Democritus, that it is like a quoit externally, and hollow in the middle.