CHAPTER XXII.

WHAT IS THE FIGURE OR SHAPE OF THE SUN.

Anaximenes affirms that in its dilatation it resembles a leaf.

Heraclitus, that it hath the shape of a boat, and is somewhat crooked.

The Stoics, that it is spherical, and it is of the same figure with the

world and the stars. Epicurus, that the recited dogmas may be defended.

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