Nam fieri vel cum primis id posse videtur, Democriti quod sancta viri sententia ponit, quanto quaeque magis sint terram sidera propter, tanto posse minus cum caeli turbine ferri; evanescere enim rapidas illius et acris imminui subter viris, ideoque relinqui paulatim solem cum posterioribu signis, inferior multo quod sit quam fervida signa.
For among the most likely causes is that which the venerable judgement of that great man Democritus puts forward: that the nearer the different heavenly bodies are to the earth, the less can they be carried along with the whirling sky, since the swiftness of force in that movement vanishes away and its power grows less in the lower regions, and so the sun is gradually left behind with the signs that are behind him, because he is much lower than the burning signs
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