Praeterea quoniam non omnia corpora fingunt in medium niti, sed terrarum atque liquoris' umorem ponti magnasque e montibus undas, et quasi terreno quae corpore contineantur', at contra tenuis exponunt aeris auras et calidos simul a medio differrier ignis, atque ideo totum circum tremere aethera signis et solis flammam per caeli caerula pasci, quod calor a medio fugiens se ibi conligat omnis, nec prorsum arboribus summos frondescere ramos posse,
Besides, inasmuch as they do not suppose all bodies to press towards the middle, but only those of earth and water'the liquid of the sea and great waters that descend from the mountains, and such things as are contained as it were in earthly frame', but on the other hand explain that the thin breezes of air and hot fires are at the same time carried away from the middle; and that the whole firmament all about twinkles with constellations and the suns flame feeds through the blue sky, because all the heat fleeing from the middle gathers itself together there; and that the topmost branches of trees could not even produce leaves,
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