The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
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The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
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1603.
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CHAP. VIII. What is the cause that the world bendeth or copeth forward. [ 50]
DIOGENES and ANAXAGORAS affirme, that after the world was made, and that living creatures were produced out of the earth, the world bowed (I wot not how) of it selfe, and of the owne accord, to the Southerne or Meridionall part thereof; haply by the divine provi∣dence so ordering all, that some parts of the world should be habitable, others inhabitable, ac∣cording to excessive colde, extreame heat, and a meane temperature of both.
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EMPEDOCLES saith, that by reason that the aire gave place to the violence of the Sunne, the two Beares or Poles * 1.1 bended, and inclined: as for those parts which were northerly, they were elevated and mounted aloft; but the southerne coasts were depressed and debased as much; and so accordingly the whole world.