Note 845 — Chapter VIII · THE WATERS

“Verumtamen ut animalia terrena habitaculum et receptaculum haberent, aqua in concavitates terrae recessit et apparuit superficies terrae arida et separata. Estque terra cum aquis in se contentis sicut sphaera terrae solum” (De sphaera, Baur’s edit., p. 12). Günther, Studien, vol. iii (?), 1879, p. 160, interpreted the last sentence to indicate that Robert believed that waters were contained in the interior of the earth and that it was to these waters that he here refers. Though this is possible, it is more likely from the context that the words “aquis in se contentis” are a reference to the seas (Stegmann, Anschauungen, 1913, p. 15).