Aristotle wrote: They say that the whole heaven is limited, the opposite
to what those of Italy, called the Pythagoreans, say; for these say that
fire is at the centre and that the earth is one of the stars, and that
moving in a circle about the centre it produces night and day. And they
assume yet another earth opposite this which they call the counter-earth,
not seeking reasons and causes for phenomena, but stretching phenomena to meet certain assumptions and opinions of theirs and attempting to arrange
them in a system. . And farther the Pythagoreans say that the most
authoritative part of the All stands guard, because it is specially fitting
that it should, and this part is the centre; and this place that the fire
occupies, they call the guard of Zeus, as it is called simply the centre,
that is, the centre of space and the centre of matter and of nature.
2007-03-23
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