Note 65 — BOOK IV DIVINERS AND MAGICIANS
Francis Legge translation
It is not easy to see from this confused statement whether it is the system of Plato or Archimedes at which Hippolytus is aiming. The one, however, that it most resembles is that of the neo-Pythagoreans, of which the following table is given in M. Bigourdan’s excellent work on L’Astronomie: Evolution des Idées et des Méthodes, Paris 1911, p. 49:—
Planets ♁ ☽ ☿ ♀ ☉ ♂ ♃ ♄ Fixed stars
Interval { in tones 1 ½ ½ 1½ 1 ½ ½ ½
in thousands of stadia 126 63 63 189 126 63 63 63
Absolute distances in thousands of stadia 0 126 189 252 441 567 630 693 756