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DEDICATION TO THE INFANTA ISABELA xix 

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NATURAL HISTORY. 

 BOOK I. 



CHAPTER 1. Of the opinions of some authors which supposed that 

 the Heavens did not extend to the new found land. 



View of St. Chrysostom 1 



Opinions of Theodoret and Lactantius - 2 



St. Jerome and St. Augustine 2 



Fathers of the Church may err 3 



CHAPTER 2. That the Heaven is round, on all parts moving in his 



course of itself. 



Opinion of Aristotle correct - 4 



The Author s own experience 4 



Proofs that the earth is round 5 



Motions of the stars 6 



Void places in the Heavens - 7 



CHAPTER 3. How the Holt/ /Scripture teacheth us (hat the earth is 

 in the middest of the world. 



Roundness of the Heavens 8 



The waters 9 



The earth rests upon nothing . 10 



Wisdom of the Creator 1 1 



