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1 I, 1 | the kinds and parts of the earth and the affections of its 2 I, 2 | bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies the highest 3 I, 2 | highest place among them all, earth the lowest, and two elements 4 I, 2 | nearest to fire, water to earth. The whole world surrounding 5 I, 2 | whole world surrounding the earth, then, the affections of 6 I, 2 | So we must treat fire and earth and the elements like them 7 I, 3 | these.~Fire, air, water, earth, we assert, originate from 8 I, 3 | the world surrounding the earth? And what is its position 9 I, 3 | relation of the bulk of the earth to the size of the bodies 10 I, 3 | which has its seat about the earth: the sea, that is, and rivers, 11 I, 3 | that which lies between the earth and the nearest stars. Are 12 I, 3 | the interval between the earth and the stars air: but if 13 I, 3 | looking at them from the earth.~This a matter which we 14 I, 3 | fill the space between the earth and the heavens, the air 15 I, 3 | elements. For the bulk of the earth (which includes the whole 16 I, 3 | region impart heat to the earth and its neighbourhood. Let 17 I, 3 | more, the further from the earth and the colder that region 18 I, 3 | the rays relected from the earth. It is these that dissolve 19 I, 3 | clouds from forming near the earth. For clouds gather at the 20 I, 3 | immediately surrounds the earth is not mere air, but a sort 21 I, 3 | the world surrounding the earth. Now the circular motion 22 I, 3 | centre and round it we get earth and water, the heaviest 23 I, 3 | the part surrounding the earth is moist and warm, because 24 I, 3 | dry exhalation from the earth. But the next part, above 25 I, 3 | motion. For the air round the earth is necessarily all of it 26 I, 3 | circumference which makes the earth a complete sphere. In the 27 I, 3 | marshy districts of the earth; and they do not seem to 28 I, 3 | between the stars and the earth, and what is the body that 29 I, 4 | When the sun warms the earth the evaporation which takes 30 I, 4 | moisture contained in the earth and on its surface is vapour, 31 I, 4 | while that rising from the earth itself, which is dry, is 32 I, 4 | the world surrounding the earth is ordered as follows. First 33 I, 7 | below, is carried round the earth by the motion of the circular 34 I, 8 | the sun passes below the earth some of the stars are hidden 35 I, 8 | which are shaded by the earth from the sun’s rays.~This, 36 I, 8 | greater than that of the earth and the distance of the 37 I, 8 | distance of the stars from the earth many times greater than 38 I, 8 | sun is further from the earth than the moon), then the 39 I, 8 | great distance from the earth, and the shadow of the earth ( 40 I, 8 | earth, and the shadow of the earth (what we call night) would 41 I, 8 | on all the stars and the earth screens none of them.~(3) 42 I, 9 | immediately surrounds the earth. It is the region common 43 I, 9 | and destruction. Now the earth remains but the moisture 44 I, 9 | falls down again to the earth.~The exhalation of water 45 I, 9 | flows in a circle about the earth.~So the moisture is always 46 I, 9 | heat and descends to the earth again when it gets cold. 47 I, 10| freeze on the surface of the earth, in the way that it does 48 I, 11| rise as vapour from the earth.~Hail on the other hand 49 I, 11| vaporous region near the earth is lacking. For, as we said, 50 I, 12| just as small particles of earth and gold often swim on water). 51 I, 12| the sun’s rays from the earth ceases there, and upon its 52 I, 12| clouds further up from the earth. But the fact is that hail 53 I, 12| great noise close to the earth, terrifying those who heard 54 I, 12| were frozen near to the earth, and not as that theory 55 I, 12| they froze close to the earth, for those that fall far 56 I, 12| weather the lower parts of the earth are cold and in a frost 57 I, 12| fall. The nearer to the earth, and the more suddenly, 58 I, 13| rain and gathers below the earth and so flows from a great 59 I, 13| would be larger than the earth, or, at any rate, not much 60 I, 13| exist in many parts of the earth, yet it is unreasonable 61 I, 13| air becomes water in the earth for the same reason as it 62 I, 13| condense into water above the earth we must suppose the cold 63 I, 13| suppose the cold in the earth to produce this same effect, 64 I, 13| contrary, just as above the earth small drops form and these 65 I, 13| must suppose that in the earth the water at first trickles 66 I, 13| as it were, out of the earth and then unite. This is 67 I, 13| and trenches, as if the earth in the higher ground were 68 I, 13| reservoirs: for the whole earth, we might almost say, would 69 I, 13| chasms and cavities in the earth we are taught by the rivers 70 I, 13| found in many parts of the earth: in the Peloponnesus, for 71 I, 13| outlet but issues below the earth off the land of the Coraxi 72 I, 14| 14~The same parts of the earth are not always moist or 73 I, 14| that the interior of the earth grows and decays, like the 74 I, 14| parts in the case of the earth. Here the causes are cold 75 I, 14| them that the parts of the earth come to have a different 76 I, 14| whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually 77 I, 14| the bulk and size of the earth are surely as nothing in 78 I, 14| and the same parts of the earth were not always moist, the 79 I, 14| same parts of the whole earth are not always either sea 80 I, 14| that the same parts of the earth are not always land or sea 81 II, 1 | has springs, for they want earth and sea to have foundations 82 II, 1 | impressive as implying that our earth was an important part of 83 II, 1 | been built up round our earth and for its sake, and that 84 II, 1 | for its sake, and that the earth was the most important and 85 II, 1 | At first, they say, the earth was surrounded by moisture. 86 II, 1 | kind of sweat exuded by the earth when the sun heats it, and 87 II, 1 | the saltness is due to the earth. Just as water strained 88 II, 1 | saltness to the admixture of earth with similar properties.~ 89 II, 1 | The waters we find on the earth either flow or are stationary. 90 II, 1 | mountains, so it is with the earth as a whole: the greatest 91 II, 1 | northern regions of the earth is afforded by the view 92 II, 1 | sun did not pass below the earth, but round its northern 93 II, 2 | fire; while the mass of the earth is that round which the 94 II, 2 | the nature of the sea.~The earth is surrounded by water, 95 II, 2 | cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, 96 II, 2 | who say that at first the earth itself was moist and the 97 II, 2 | and the world round the earth was warmed by the sun, and 98 II, 2 | the deepest part of the earth is filled by the sea. Only 99 II, 2 | There it is said that the earth is pierced by intercommunicating 100 II, 2 | flow on this side of the earth’s centre and on that; for 101 II, 2 | from the other side of the earth’s centre, they might return 102 II, 2 | colours from the kind of earth the rivers happened to flow 103 II, 2 | one of them ends in the earth, but even when one is swallowed 104 II, 3 | place and after that the earth will grow dry once again. 105 II, 3 | moisture that is about the earth and has been drawn up by 106 II, 3 | admixture of a certain kind of earth. Since the total volume 107 II, 3 | maintained that an admixture of earth makes the sea salt (for 108 II, 3 | salt (for they say that earth has many flavours and is 109 II, 3 | can the admixture of this earth have such a striking effect 110 II, 3 | the vehicle in which that earth is carried to their common 111 II, 3 | the sea "the sweat of the earth", like Empedicles. Metaphors 112 II, 3 | be any such thing in the earth requires explanation. Besides, 113 II, 3 | drying and warming of the earth cause the secretion such 114 II, 3 | fragment of what is left in the earth? Again, waiving the question 115 II, 3 | quantity, why does not the earth sweat now when it happens 116 II, 3 | was it possible for the earth at the beginning when it 117 II, 3 | reasonable; but for the earth to sweat when it is moist 118 II, 3 | people say that it was burnt earth that made the sea salt. 119 II, 3 | To say that it was burnt earth is absurd; but to say that 120 II, 3 | was something like burnt earth is true. We must suppose 121 II, 3 | consisting of this sort of earth. All the earthy stuff in 122 II, 3 | and must redescend to the earth in rain. This process must 123 II, 3 | quantity of this kind of earth descends quickest.~This, 124 II, 3 | the parts neither of the earth nor of the sea remain constant 125 II, 3 | same thing is true of the earth as of the sea: some of it 126 II, 3 | was extinguished but the earth through which they percolate 127 II, 3 | them, for if you expose earth to different degrees of 128 II, 4 | distributed through the earth. (This explains why there 129 II, 4 | of fire and heat in the earth, and the sun not only draws 130 II, 4 | but warms and dries the earth itself. Consequently, since 131 II, 4 | sun and the warmth in the earth not only can but must produce 132 II, 4 | explained. After rain the earth is being dried by its own 133 II, 4 | rises straight up from the earth, they blow round it because 134 II, 4 | dry evaporation from the earth moving round the earth", 135 II, 4 | the earth moving round the earth", it is clear that while 136 II, 4 | are at a distance from the earth, and the motion from below 137 II, 4 | plainly derives from the earth.~The facts bear out the 138 II, 4 | water that oozes from the earth. Every wind is weakest in 139 II, 5 | evaporation. It also dries up the earth, the source of the evaporation, 140 II, 5 | rising by drying up the earth quickly. Hence calm is very 141 II, 5 | is near it dries up the earth before evaporation has taken 142 II, 5 | so the ice melts and the earth, dried by its own heat and 143 II, 5 | things on the surface of the earth and offering little resistance 144 II, 5 | inhabitable sections of the earth: one near our upper, or 145 II, 5 | lines from the centre of the earth they cut out a drum-shaped 146 II, 5 | is at the centre of the earth. Two other cones towards 147 II, 5 | corresponding segments of the earth. These sections alone are 148 II, 5 | to the north, whereas the earth is known to be uninhabitable 149 II, 5 | describe the geography of the earth is ridiculous. They depict 150 II, 5 | They depict the inhabited earth as round, but both ascertained 151 II, 5 | extending all round the earth. For we meet with no excessive 152 II, 5 | our travelling round the earth unless the extent of the 153 II, 5 | Heracles and prevents the earth from being inhabited all 154 II, 6 | thaws and soaks into the earth and is exposed to the heat 155 II, 6 | heat of the sun and the earth it necessarily causes evaporation 156 II, 7 | caught in hollows below the earth and so shakes it, for though 157 II, 7 | shakes it, for though the earth is really all of it equally 158 II, 7 | heavy bodies move to the earth from every quarter, and 159 II, 7 | as our knowledge of the earth goes, the horizon always 160 II, 7 | position, which proves that the earth is convex and spherical. 161 II, 7 | too, to maintain that the earth rests on the air because 162 II, 7 | Democritus says that the earth is full of water and that 163 II, 7 | result. The hollows in the earth being unable to admit the 164 II, 7 | earthquake. Or again, the earth as it dries draws the water 165 II, 7 | Anaximenes says that the earth breaks up when it grows 166 II, 7 | as we have explained, the earth grows dry in time of drought 167 II, 7 | if this were the case the earth ought to be found to be 168 II, 8 | consequence of this fact. The earth is essentially dry, but 169 II, 8 | so that not water nor earth is the cause of earthquakes 170 II, 8 | external evaporation into the earth.~Hence, since the evaporation 171 II, 8 | one of these enters the earth we get an earthquake attended 172 II, 8 | the evaporation into the earth. Night, too, is calmer than 173 II, 8 | evaporation return into the earth like a sort of ebb tide, 174 II, 8 | quantity of wind in the earth is greater and a more violent 175 II, 8 | full of currents or the earth spongy and cavernous: so 176 II, 8 | flow in channels below the earth. The hot springs, too, near 177 II, 8 | naturally blow away from the earth: but the onrush of the sea 178 II, 8 | thrusts it back into the earth. The countries that are 179 II, 8 | evaporation to form in the earth. Then this secretion is 180 II, 8 | out and beats against the earth and shakes it violently.~ 181 II, 8 | action of the wind in the earth to be analogous to the tremors 182 II, 8 | that what happens in the earth is just like that. Our theory 183 II, 8 | caused it burst through the earth into the air and appeared 184 II, 8 | islands. Here a portion of the earth swelled up and a lump like 185 II, 8 | that is generated in the earth: the air is first broken 186 II, 8 | below the surface of the earth. When a south wind is going 187 II, 8 | advance thrusts back into the earth the wind that was issuing 188 II, 8 | begins to withdraw into the earth. The calm, too, and the 189 II, 8 | wind flows back into the earth: again, it must be most 190 II, 8 | wind is not part outside earth, part inside, but moves 191 II, 8 | essentially hot enters the earth. (Wind is not recognized 192 II, 8 | evaporation disappears into the earth the vaporous exhalation 193 II, 8 | the same reason. When the earth is on the point of being 194 II, 8 | eclipse, turns off into the earth, and calm ensues. For there 195 II, 8 | perceptible effect on the earth at all.~Subterranean noises, 196 II, 8 | various noises, so that the earth sometimes seems to "bellow" 197 II, 8 | we might as well say that earth was the cause; for it is 198 II, 8 | form of upsetting). No, earth and water are material causes ( 199 II, 8 | wind which is shaking the earth does not entirely succeed 200 II, 8 | and the wind entered the earth, and then the tidal wave 201 II, 8 | wind that had entered the earth, but shut it in. So in their 202 II, 8 | source and origin inside the earth, so that the sun is not 203 II, 8 | since the surface of the earth secretes far more of the 204 II, 8 | comes to the surface of the earth (as when you throw up things 205 II, 8 | the evaporations from the earth after them. Islands near 206 II, 9 | same stuff is wind on the earth, and earthquake under it, 207 III, 1 | eddies are generated on the earth, and the case is the same 208 III, 1 | spiral which descends to the earth and drags with it the cloud 209 III, 3 | is formed rather near the earth because that is calmer: 210 III, 5 | of the circle above the earth which is cut off by the 211 III, 5 | of culmination from the earth. But in the days near the 212 III, 6 | because it moves close to the earth and is not dissipated in 213 III, 6 | sun because close to the earth the sun’s rays would dissolve 214 III, 6 | vision is not close to the earth, and so but little sight 215 III, 6 | above the surface of the earth; we must go on to describe 216 III, 6 | shut up in the parts of the earth.~Just as its twofold nature 217 III, 6 | bodies that originate in the earth, "fossiles" and metals. 218 III, 6 | vaporous exhalation in the earth, and especially in stones. 219 III, 6 | possess an admixture of earth; for they still contain 220 IV, 1 | is liable to putrefy; for earth, water, and air putrefy, 221 IV, 1 | drier and ends by becoming earth or dung. The subject’s own 222 IV, 4 | them both. Of the elements earth is especially representative 223 IV, 4 | bodies in our world involve earth and water. Every body shows 224 IV, 4 | predominates in it. It is because earth and water are the material 225 IV, 5 | characterized by the moist, earth that characterized by the 226 IV, 5 | being found in water and earth (both of which we recognize 227 IV, 6 | either water or a mixture of earth and water, and the agent 228 IV, 6 | that are made up of both earth and water are solidified 229 IV, 6 | which are made up both of earth and water but in which the 230 IV, 6 | and water but in which the earth preponderates, those which 231 IV, 6 | be like that of lime. and earth, too~Of the bodies which 232 IV, 6 | stone that are formed out of earth burnt up by fire, such as 233 IV, 7 | contains more water than earth fire only thickens it: if 234 IV, 7 | it: if it contains more earth fire solidifies it. Hence 235 IV, 7 | s clay must contain more earth.~The nature of oil presents 236 IV, 7 | ought to solidify it; if earth preponderated, then fire 237 IV, 7 | bodies which are made up of earth and water may be classified 238 IV, 7 | this is of the nature of earth. Some of these bodies, as 239 IV, 7 | fire) are made up either of earth or of water and air: honey 240 IV, 7 | water and air: honey of earth, while oil contains air. 241 IV, 7 | made up of both water and earth, though earth generally 242 IV, 7 | water and earth, though earth generally predominates in 243 IV, 7 | fibres: for the fibres are of earth and solid, and blood from 244 IV, 7 | by cold. Wood consists of earth and air and is therefore 245 IV, 7 | the air has escaped and so earth preponderates in it.) Pottery 246 IV, 7 | it.) Pottery consists of earth alone because it solidified 247 IV, 8 | mixed bodies. So water and earth are the constituents of 248 IV, 8 | and the rest-water and earth and their respective exhalations 249 IV, 8 | watery, but in which heat and earth preponderate, like honey 250 IV, 9 | up of water, but in which earth predominates. All their 251 IV, 9 | water, whereas wool and earth can be softened in water, 252 IV, 9 | softened by water must be of earth and must have its pores 253 IV, 9 | throughout.~(Why is it that earth is both "melted" and softened 254 IV, 9 | divided by the water, but earth has also pores which do 255 IV, 9 | away they dry up or become earth. But the kind of secretion 256 IV, 9 | those that contain more earth than smoke are apt to be 257 IV, 9 | bodies are inflammable when earth predominates in them and 258 IV, 10| moist, that is, water and earth (for these bodies exhibit 259 IV, 10| homogeneous bodies out of earth and water as matter. Let 260 IV, 10| homogeneous bodies are made of earth and which of water, and 261 IV, 10| either of the nature of earth, or a mixture either of 262 IV, 10| or a mixture either of earth and water, like milk, or 263 IV, 10| water, like milk, or of earth and air, like wood, or of 264 IV, 10| and a great proportion of earth, as in Arcadia, where it 265 IV, 10| it then it will belong to earth or to water according to 266 IV, 10| cold are of the nature of earth; those that are thickened 267 IV, 10| solidified by heat are of earth, e.g. pottery, cheese, natron, 268 IV, 10| bodies that are purely of earth solidify by the privation 269 IV, 10| gone are all of them of earth, like pottery or amber. ( 270 IV, 10| moisture has not wholly gone earth still preponderates, but 271 IV, 10| like wax, are common to earth and water alike. But those 272 IV, 10| are melted by water are of earth. Those that are not melted 273 IV, 10| by fire or water are of earth, or of earth and water.~ 274 IV, 10| water are of earth, or of earth and water.~Since, then, 275 IV, 10| whether a body consists of earth or of water or of more elements 276 IV, 10| wood, hair, leaves, bark, earth preponderates. So, too, 277 IV, 10| greater or less degree, of earth. For of all these bodies 278 IV, 10| and semen, are made up of earth and water and air. If the 279 IV, 10| the blood contains fibres, earth preponderates in it: consequently 280 IV, 11| heat. Bodies consisting of earth, on the other hand, are 281 IV, 11| matter (being passive) and earth and water are the elements 282 IV, 11| heat.~Bodies made up of earth and water are hot, for most 283 IV, 11| their matter and that is earth and water. Hence both views 284 IV, 11| opposite of fire), but if earth or air it tends to be warm.~