The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 68
taine it is, that the Planet which they call Saturne^xs the highefl; and therefore feemeth satmniileaft : alfo that hee keepeth hiscourfe,3nd performeth his revolution in the greateft circle of all:and in thirtic yeeresfpace at the fooneft,returneth againe to the point of his firft place,… … S The fecorid Booke of hafteneth to the rightp.Weft ward.] And albeit in that continual turning vvith exceeding cclcri- 6tic.thofe planets be lifted up aloftjand carried by it forcible into the Weftjand there fct: yet byacontrarie motion of their ownCjthey pafleevery one through their fevcrall…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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