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).
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