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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 5)

Volume 3 / Book 3 — CHAPTER X. OF THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH.

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Thales, the Stoics, and their followers say that the earth is globular. Anaximander, that it resembles a smooth stony pillar. Anaximenes, that it hath the shape of a table. Leucippus, of a drum. Democritus, that it is like a quoit in its surface, and hollow in the middle.

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