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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.1d–I.26.1e.3
Ancient Greek
p. 6141d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ξενοφάνης νέφος εἶναι πεπιλημένον.
1e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Θαλῆς γεώδη τὴν σελήνην ἀπεφήνατο.
Ἀναξαγόρας καὶ Δημόκριτος στερέωμα διάπυρον, ἔχον ἐν ἑαυτῷ πεδία καὶ ὄρη καὶ φάραγγας.
Διογένης κισηροειδὲς ἄναμμα τὴν σελήνην.
1e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Ἴων σῶμα τῇ μὲν ὑελοειδές, διαυγές, τῇ δὲ ἀφεγγές.
Βήρωσος ἡμιπύρωτον σφαῖραν τὴν σελήνην.
1e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Ἡρακλείδης καὶ Ὄκελλος γῆν ὁμίχλῃ περιεχομένην.
Πυθαγόρας κατοπτροειδὲς σῶμα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6151d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Xenophanes
Xenophanes held that it is a compacted cloud.
1e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Earthy and fiery bodies
Thales declared that the moon is earthy.
Anaxagoras and Democritus held that it is an incandescent solid body, containing plains, mountains, and ravines.
Diogenes held that the moon is a kindled mass resembling pumice.792
1e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Ion and Berossus
Ion held that it is a body partly glass-like and transparent, partly without light.793
Berossus held that the moon is a sphere with half of it on fire.794
1e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Mist and reflection
Heraclides and Ocellus held that it is earth surrounded by mist.
Pythagoras held that it is a mirror-like body.
Socrates
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