Something of a pleasant distraction for today: a stamp commemorating the authority of Aristotle, for Columbus.
From the website non-contradiction.com.
Aristotle's Greek is a bit different from the Latin (which is actually a paraphrase quotation of Roger Bacon from his Opus Maius, c. 1268):
Διὸ τοὺς ὑπολαμβάνοντας συνάπτειν τὸν περὶ τὰς Ἡρακλείας στήλας τόπον τῷ περὶ τὴν Ἰνδικήν, καὶτοῦτον τὸν τρόπον εἶναι τὴν θάλατταν μίαν, μὴ λίαν ὑπολαμβάνειν ἄπιστα δοκεῖν (De Caelo, 298a9-12).And the sentence almost immediately preceding that selection seems not unimportant, the conclusion of a series of arguments for why the earth is spherical:
Ὥστ' οὐ μόνον ἐκ τούτων δῆλον περιφερὲς ὂν τὸ σχῆμα τῆς γῆς, ἀλλὰ καὶ σφαίρας οὐ μεγάλης.
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