Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 96
hat it rested upon air, and airwas also in the sky above. The underside of the discwas not inhabited, no doubt because no one could standupside down. His order of the successive heavens is 64 LATER FLAT-EARTH SYSTEMS. not quite the same as that of Leucippus, as he puts themoon and the Morning Star… … Fig. 14. The Universe of Democritua. bodies did not circle symmetrically with regard to thecentral earth. Why was not the pole in their zenithand the equator on the horizon ? They could only guessthat it must have been so at first, and that the disc hadslipped out of position, either through some…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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