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 76
e heavcn^give but adaike and dim light to the MoonCjin comparifbn of them thatfall directly with {freight angles*And therefore in the quadrangle afped of the Sunne, fhe appeareth divided in halfean the tri-anglCjlhe is well neere envirohncd,but her circle is halfe emptie and void:howbeit in the… … Chap. XIX. P§k> ihertifon of the Sunm motion^and ihe unequaUtie of dates ^ S for the Sunne himfclfc,a man may obferve foure differences in his courfe:twicein the year making the night equal to the day,to witjin the Spring^and Autumnesfor then he falleth juft upon the centre of the earthjuamely…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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