Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 2.15 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 2.15 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

OF THE ORDER AND PLACE OF THE STARS. Xenocrates says that the stars are moved in one and the same supei-ficies. The other Stoics say that they are moved in various superficies, some being superior, others inferior. Democritus, that the fixed stars arc in the highest place; after those the planets; after which the sun, Venus, and the moon, in their order. Plato, that the first after the fixed stars that makes its appearance is Phaenon, tlie star of Saturn ; the second Phaeton, the star of Jupiter ;the third the fiery, which is the stiir of Mars ; the fourth the morning star, which is the star of Venus; the fifth the shining star, and that is the star of Mercury ; in the sixth place is the sun, in the seventh the moon. Plato and some of the mathematicians conspire in the same opinion ; others place the sun as the centre of the planets. Anaximander, Metrodorus of Chios, and Crates assign to the sun the superior place, after him they place the moon, after them the fixed stars and planets.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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