Dialogue

 1 Intro|         discussed question of the rotation or immobility of the earth.
 2 Intro|         Plato the doctrine of the rotation of the earth on its axis.
 3 Intro|           Grote, that the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis
 4 Intro| understood the word, but that the rotation of the earth is necessarily
 5 Intro|        Plato did not see that the rotation of the earth on its axis
 6 Intro|          be inconsistent with the rotation of the axis. And (b) what
 7 Intro|          see his pamphlet on ‘The Rotation of the Earth’) from Aristotle
 8 Intro|           the first passage meant rotation on an axis. (4) The immobility
 9 Intro|          expected to speak of the rotation of the earth, is more favourable
10 Timae|        same time, measured by the rotation of the same and equally
11 Timae|         and this goes on like the rotation of a wheel, because there