 He states: “That which is in place is equal to the place” (LC 142D TC43; cf. Phys. IV.4, 212a29–30). This means, in its proper sense, that the contents of both have to be equal, but the surface of the concave sphere is not equal to the surfaces of the embraced spheres. Averroes refers to their content, and says “that equality is impossible, unless place were the void” (ista aequalitas non est vera de loco, nisi inane esset, LC 142E TC43). Averroes looks for an answer. The universe is at rest as a whole. The earth is the center of the universe and the center is at rest, and it is in place essentially. The heavenly body (coelum) is not at rest in so far as its parts, i.e., the various spheres, move but it does not translocate, non transmutatur, and for this reason it is in place accidentally (LC 142G T43). His reference is Aristotle, but Bekker’s edition of the passage 212b7–13 simply reads that “some things [are] in place accidentally like the soul and the heavenly  body”.[6]