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The Universe, Astronomy, Climate by Pliny, the Elder.; Brian Turner; Richard J A Talbert is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Universe, Astronomy, Climate about?

The world [i.e. universe] and this -whatever other name be preferred to call the sky under whose arc everything occurs -is rightly believed to be a deity, eternal, boundless, neither created nor ever to perish. Humans are neither concerned to investigate what is beyond, nor are mortal minds capable of imagining that. 2. It is sacred, eternal, boundless, all in all, yet really itself all, infinite and yet seeming finite, sure of everything and yet seeming unsure, drawing to itself everything without and within, a work of the natural order while also being itself the natural order. 3. To have pondered its extent -as some have done -and dared to make it known is craziness, as it is for others to have then taken the opportunity (or been given it by them) to claim that there are countless worlds, obliging us to believe that there are just as many natural orders or, if one does encompass all, that there are as many suns and as many moons as there are already in a single one, as well as huge stars beyond counting; as if, despite the wish to conclude them, these same issues would not always occur at the end of our deliberations, or, if this boundlessness could be attributed to Nature the c

Author

Pliny, the Elder.; Brian Turner; Richard J A Talbert

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108592758

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Biology