rum nilotenus est Fabulis accommodandus assensus, "Nor should wee any longer assent to the Fable of Antipodes." So also Lucretius the Poet speaking of the same subject, sayes:
Sed vanus solidis hæc omnia sinxerit error.[1]
That some idle fancy faigned these for fooles to believe. Of this opinion was Procopius Gazases[2], but he was perswaded to it by another kinde of reason; for he thought that all the earth under us was sunke in the water, according to the saying of the Psalmist[3], Hee hath founded the Earth upon the Seas, and therefore hee accounted it not inhabited by any. Nay Testatus a man of later yeeres and generall learning doth also confidently deny that there are any such Antipodes, though the reason which hee urges for it bee not so absurde as the former, for the Apostles[4], saith hee, travelled through the whole
- ↑ De nat. rerum, lib. 1.
- ↑ Comment. in 1, Cap. Gen.
- ↑ Psal. 24.2.
- ↑ Comment in 1. Genes.
