Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 3.14 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 3.14 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

INTO now MANY ZONES IS THE EARTH DIVIDED ? Pythagoras says that, as the celestial sphere is distributed into ii\e zones, into the same number is the terrestrial ; which zones are the arctic and antarctic, the summer and winter tropics (or temperate zones), and nilLOSOPHERS DELIGHTED IN. 157 the equinoctial ; the middle of which zones equally divides the earth and constitutes the torrid zone ; but that part which is in the middle of the summer and winter tropics is habitable, by reason the air is there temperate.

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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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