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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.2.heading–I.26.2.3
Ancient Greek
p. 6202 Περὶ φωτισμῶν
Περὶ δὲ φωτισμῶν αὐτῆς.
2 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Ἀναξίμανδρος, Ξενοφάνης, Βήρωσος ἴδιον αὐτὴν ἔχειν φῶς.
Ἀριστοτέλης ἴδιον μέν, ἀραιότερον δέ πως.
Οἱ Στωικοὶ ἀμαυροφανές, ἀεροειδὲς γάρ.
2 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Ἀντιφῶν ἰδιοφεγγῆ μὲν τὴν σελήνην, τὸ δ᾽ ἀποκρυπτόμενον περὶ αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τῆς προσβολῆς τοῦ ἡλίου ἀμαυροῦσθαι, πεφυκότος τοῦ ἰσχυροτέρου τὸ ἀσθενέστερον ἀμαυροῦν· ὃ δὴ συμβαίνειν καὶ περὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἄστρα.
2 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Θαλῆς πρῶτος ἔφη ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου φωτίζεσθαι. Πυθαγόρας, Παρμενίδης, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, Ἀναξαγόρας, Μητρόδωρος ὁμοίως.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6212 On its illumination
On its illumination.
2 ⟨Aëtius⟩: The moon’s own light
Anaximander, Xenophanes, and Berossus held that the moon has light of its own.
Aristotle held that it has its own light, but somehow more rarefied.
The Stoics held that its light appears dim, since it is air-like.802
2 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Antiphon
Antiphon held that the moon shines with its own light, but that its hidden portion is dimmed by the impact of the sun’s rays: the stronger naturally obscures the weaker. The same thing happens with the other heavenly bodies.803
2 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Illumination by the sun
Thales was the first to say that the moon is illuminated by the sun. Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Metrodorus held the same view.804
Socrates
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