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tine, all serve as witnesses that it must have prerailetl 

 in their time, 



8. I make no mention of the condemnation of 

 Bishop Virgilius by Pope Zachary, for having taught 

 this doctrine, because it is a mistake : the pope, in 

 that letter of his to St. Boniface, speaks only of those 

 who maintained, that there was another world besides 

 this ol ouis, another sun, another moon and so on. 



9. As to the proofs which the ancients brought of 

 the sphericity of the earth, they were the very same 

 that the moderns make use of. Pliny on this subject 

 observes, that the land which retires out of sight to 

 perfeo s on the deck of a ship, appears still in view to 

 those who are upon the n.ast ; and thence concludes 

 that the rarth i* round. Aristotle drew this conse- 

 quence nut only from the shadow of (he earth's being; 

 circular on the .isk of the mron in the time ot aa 

 eclipse, but also from this circumstance, that in tra. 

 Telling south, wt discover o'her stars, and that those 

 which we saw before, wheth-r in the zenith, or else* 

 where ; change their situation with respect to us 



