Section 54
CHAPTER LV — OF THE EARTH.
'THALES and his followers say that the Earth is one.
'Hicetas the Pythagorean says that there are two, this and the antipodal earth.
'The Stoics: the Earth is one, and finite.
'Xenophanes: from the lower part its roots reach into infinity, and it is composed of air and fire.
'Metrodorus: the Earth is the deposit and sediment of the water, and the Sun of the air.'