Spherical Earth
- "The earth is surrounded by water, just as that is by the sphere of air, and that again by the sphere called that of fire." (354b23-25)
Aristotle is describing a spherical lithosphere (Earth), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air and fire).
Read more about this topic: Meteorology (Aristotle)
Famous quotes containing the word earth:
“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
uncounted into the supple arms of love.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)