Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 105
, and the nights are equallylong. It was the braver of the Pythagoreans to shake thesteady earth from her centre, and set her whirling inthe depths of space, that they realized, as no one haddone before, how large she must be; for Greece andthe surrounding lands, the Middle and the other… … Fig. 16. The System of Philolaus : night on earth. Only the side turned away from the centre is inhabited: consequently the CentralFire and Antichthon are invisible.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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