For From What Part Of The Earth
That Men Dwell, Either Above Or Beneath, It Seemeth Always To Them
That Dwell That They Go More Right Than Any Other Folk.
And right
as it seemeth to us that they be under us, right so it seemeth to
them that we be under them.
For if a man might fall from the earth
unto the firmament, by greater, reason the earth and the sea that
be so great and so heavy should fall to the firmament: but that
may not be, and therefore saith our Lord God, NON TIMEAS ME, QUI
SUSPENDI TERRAM EX NIHILO?
And albeit that it be possible thing that men may so environ all
the world, natheles, of a thousand persons, one ne might not happen
to return into his country. For, for the greatness of the earth
and of the sea, men may go by a thousand and a thousand other ways,
that no man could ready him perfectly toward the parts that he came
from, but if it were by adventure and hap, or by the grace of God.
For the earth is full large and full great, and holds in roundness
and about environ, by above and by beneath, 20425 miles, after the
opinion of old wise astronomers; and their sayings I reprove
nought. But, after my little wit, it seemeth me, saving their
reverence, that it is more.
And for to have better understanding I say thus. Be there imagined
a figure that hath a great compass.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 179 of 305
Words from 47833 to 48086
of 81655
