CHAPTER X.

WHAT PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE ON THE RIGHT HAND, AND WHAT PARTS ARE ON

THE LEFT.

Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle say that the eastern parts of the

world, from whence motion commences, are of the right, those of the

western are of the left-hand of the world. Empedocles, that those that

are of the right-hand are towards the summer solstice, those of the

left towards the winter solstice.

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