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40439	Grote, George	Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine			.txt	text/plain	13501	922	70	Platonic words, he calls the earth [Greek: ê(me/ras phu/lax kai\ first, in the rotation of the earth round its own axis, next, at believe that the earth revolves round its own axis in twenty-four the diurnal rotation of the earth round the centre of the cosmical earth packed round it, by the Platonic Timæus.] Now the function which Plato ascribes to the earth in the passage the cosmical axis is to revolve, the earth, being closely packed earth is packed close or fastened round the cosmical axis, so, if affirmation of Plato--that the earth was fastened round the affirming that the earth revolved round the cosmical axis. question thus--"Does Plato in the Timæus conceive the earth as rotation of the earth round the solid cosmical axis, which he that Aristotle ascribed to Plato the doctrine of the rotation of holds that the Platonic Timæus affirms the rotation of the earth,	./cache/40439.txt	./txt/40439.txt