Plut. Mor., Platonic Questions 8.1 — Plutarch's Platonic questions

Plut. Mor., Platonic Questions 8.1 — Plutarch's Platonic questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question VIII WHAT MEANS TIMAEUS, WHEN HE SAYS THAT SOULS ARE DISPERSED IN TO THE EARTH, THE MOON, AND INTO OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF TIME? Does the earth move like the sun, moon, and five planets, which for their motions he calls organs or instruments of time? Or is the earth fixed to the axis of the universe; yet not so built as to remain immovable, but to turn and wheel about, as Aristarchus and Seleucus have shown since; Aristarchus only supposing it, Seleucus positively asserting it? Theophrastus writes how that Plato, when he grew old, repented him that he had placed the earth in the middle of the universe, which was not its place.

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Plutarch's Platonic questions, Plutarch — translated by R. Brown (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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