: Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine by Grote George - Aristotle 384 BC-322 BC; Plato. Timaeus; Astronomy Greek; Earth (Planet) Rotation

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PLATO'S DOCTRINE

RESPECTING THE

ROTATION OF THE EARTH,

ARISTOTLE'S COMMENT UPON THAT DOCTRINE.

BY GEORGE GROTE, ESQ.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1860.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.

EXAMINATION OF THE THREE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:--

PREFACE

The following paper was originally intended as an explanatory note on the Platonic Timaeus, in the work which I am now preparing on Plato and Aristotle. Interpreting, differently from others, the much debated passage in which Plato describes the cosmical function of the Earth, I found it indispensable to give my reasons for this new view. But I soon discovered that those reasons could not be comprised within the limits of a note. Accordingly I here publish them in a separate Dissertation. The manner in which the Earth's rotation was conceived, illustrates the scientific character of the Platonic and Aristotelian age, as contrasted with the subsequent development and improvement of astronomy.

PLATO--ON THE EARTH'S ROTATION.

In Plato, Timaeus, p. 40 B, we read the following words-- I give the text as it stands in Stallbaum's edition.

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