Note 355 — Chapter III · THE ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM

So Hippolytus objects not only to the astrology of his time, but to the arithmetical calculations on which it was professedly based. The estimates attributed to Archimedes of the relative distances of the earth from the sun, moon and planets are marked out by him for special condemnation. Cf. Philosophumena, Bk IV. c. 1, pp. 67-76, Cruice.