By John Burnet
In case you are contemplating this booklet, i discovered it obtainable to novices, since it used to be the *first* e-book at the Presocratics I learn, and that i bought via it high quality (with no previous Greek Philosophy instruction). now not as "strenuous" as Kirk & Raven which had costs imbedded in footnotes and so on. making it extra of a "scholarly" factor (but additionally very good nonetheless).
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Thales and Geometry 7. Thales as a Politician 8. Uncertain Character of the Tradition 9. The Cosmology of Thales 10. Water 11. Theology 12. The Life of Anaximander 13. Theophrastus on Anaximander's Theory of the Primary Substance 14. The Primary Substance is Not One of the Elements 15. Aristotle's Account of the Theory 16. The Primary Substance is Infinite 17. The Innumerable Worlds 18. "Eternal Motion" and the Dinê 19. Origin of the Heavenly Bodies 20. Earth and Sea 21. The Heavenly Bodies 22.
Ii. 25, 1. —Aet. ii. 29, 1. ) were all caused by the blast of the wind. —Aet. iii. 3, 1. e. —Aet. iii. 7, 1. There is a curious variation in the figures given for the size of the wheels of the heavenly bodies, and it seems most likely that 18 and 27 refer to their inner, while 19 and 28 refer to their outer circumference. 96 It is possible that the theory of "wheels" was suggested by the Milky Way. 97 It should be added that lightning is explained in much the same way as the heavenly bodies. It, too, was fire breaking through condensed air, in this case storm clouds.
25). In the same way the sun and the moon and the other heavenly bodies, which are of a fiery nature, are supported by the air because of their breadth. The heavenly bodies were produced from the earth by moisture rising from it. When this is rarefied, fire comes into being, and the stars are composed of the fire thus raised aloft. There were also bodies of earthy substance in the region of the stars, revolving along with them. And he says that the heavenly bodies do not move under the earth, as others suppose, but round it, as a cap turns round our head.