Note 38 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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De nupt. Phil. et Merc., VI, 590–598. Martianus Capella brought together and vigorously presented many of the arguments of his predecessors: that of Aristotle that the shadow of the earth on the moon is curved, the argument of the different appearance of the heavens in different latitudes, and the argument from the eclipses (see above, note 33).