Note 62 — Chapter II · Prelude to the Inductive Epoch of Hipparchus.

Aristotle says “has its poles in the ecliptic,” but this must be a mistake of his. He professes merely to receive these opinions from the mathematical astronomers, “ἐκ τῆς οἰκειοτάτης φιλοσοφίας τῶν μαθηματικῶν.”