Note 681 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY
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“Haec [i. e. terrae] centrum in medio mundi ut punctus in medio circuli aequaliter collocatur ...” etc. (De imag. mundi, I, 5). “Tanta est firmamenti quantitas ut ipsi totalis terra collata quasi punctum esse videatur” (Alexander Neckam, De nat. rer., I, 5). Michael Scot, however, believed that “the distance to the extreme of the waters beneath the earth equals the distance to the moon” (Haskins, Michael Scot, 1921–1922, p. 272; idem, Studies, 1924, pp. 295–296).