CHAPTER XVI. OF THE MOTION AND CIRCULATION OF THE STARS.

Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Cleanthes say that all the stars have their

motion from east to west. Alcmaeon and the mathematicians, that the

planets have a contrary motion to the fixed stars, and in opposition to

them are carried from the west to the east. Anaximander, that they

are carried by those circles and spheres on which they are placed.

Anaximenes, that they are turned under and about the earth. Plato and

the mathematicians, that the sun, Venus, and Mercury hold equal measures

in their motions.

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