Fortasse, qui Archimedis libros legit, dicet non posse fieri veram ex aqua librationem, quod ei placet aquam non esse libratam, sed sphaeroides habere schema sed ibi habere centrum, quo loci habet orbis terrarum.
Perhaps the student of the works of Archimedes may say that true levelling cannot be made by means of water, because his theory is that the surface of water is not level, but is that of a sphere of which the centre is that of the earth.
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