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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.2.4–I.26.3.2
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p. 6222 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4
Ἡράκλειτος ταὐτὸν πεπονθέναι τήν τε σελήνην καὶ τὸν ἥλιον. Σκαφοειδεῖς δὲ ὄντας τοῖς σχήμασι τοὺς ἀστέρας, δεχομένους τὰς ἀπὸ τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἀναθυμιάσεως αὐγάς, φωτίζεσθαι πρὸς τὴν φαντασίαν, λαμπροτέρως μὲν τὸν ἥλιον, ἐν καθαρωτέρῳ γὰρ ἀέρι φέρεσθαι, τὴν δὲ σελήνην ἐν θολωτέρῳ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀμαυροτέραν φαίνεσθαι.
3 Περὶ ἐκλείψεως
Περὶ δὲ ἐκλείψεως σελήνης.
3 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Ἀναξίμανδρος τοῦ στομίου τοῦ περὶ τὸν τροχὸν ἐπιφραττομένου.
Βήρωσος κατὰ τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐπιστροφὴν τοῦ ἀπυρώτου μέρους.
Ἀλκμαίων, Ἡράκλειτος, Ἀντιφῶν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ σκαφοειδοῦς στροφὴν καὶ τὰς περικλίσεις.
3 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Τῶν Πυθαγορείων τινὲς κατὰ τὴν Ἀριστοτέλειον ἱστορίαν καὶ τὴν Φιλίππου τοῦ Ὀπουντίου ἀπόφασιν ἀντιφράξει τότε μὲν τῆς γῆς, τότε δὲ τῆς ἀντίχθονος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6232 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Heraclitus
Heraclitus held that the same thing happens to both moon and sun. The heavenly bodies are shaped like bowls: receiving the radiance from moist exhalation, they become luminous to our sight. The sun shines more brightly because it moves through purer air; the moon moves through murkier air and therefore appears dimmer.805
3 On lunar eclipse
On eclipse of the moon.806
3 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Closures and turnings
Anaximander held that eclipse occurs when the opening on the wheel is blocked.
Berossus held that it occurs when the unburned portion turns toward us.
Alcmaeon, Heraclitus, and Antiphon held that it occurs through the turning and tilting of the bowl-shaped body.
3 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Earth and counter-earth
Some Pythagoreans, according to Aristotle’s account and Philip of Opus’ statement, held that eclipse occurs through the interposition sometimes of the earth, sometimes of the counter-earth.807
Socrates
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