Note 657 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY
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Abelard (loc. cit.) and William of Conches (loc. cit.) compare the shell of the egg to the fire, the skin to the air, the white to the water, and the yolk to the earth. Daniel of Morley makes the same comparison, as follows: “Mundus vero ad similitudinem ovi factus est vel dispositus. Terra est in medio ut vitellum in ovo; circa hanc est aqua ut circa vitellum album; circa aquam aer ut panniculus continens album. Extra vero cetera concludens est ignis ad modum teste ovi” (De philosophia, Sudhoff’s edit., p. 20).