Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)

Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 313-320 AD

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Section 55

CHAPTER LVI — OF THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH.

'THALES and the Stoics: the Earth is spherical.

'Anaximander: it is like a stone pillar supporting the surfaces.

'Anaximenes: like a table.

'Leucippus: like a kettle-drum.

'Democritus: like a disk in its extension, but hollow in the middle.'