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LIBER II · CAPUT 66

HOW THE WATER IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH. OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE SEA AND THE RIVERS

HOW THE WATER IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH. OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE SEA AND THE RIVERS · EDITORIAL PLATE II.66 · modern editorial plate
HOW THE WATER IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH. OF THE NAVIGATION OF THE SEA AND THE RIVERS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

est igitur in toto suo globo tellus medio ambitu praecincta circumfluo mari, nec argumentis hoc investigandum, sed iam experimentis cognitum.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

The earth has, therefore, the whole of its globe girt, on every side, by the sea flowing round it. And this is not a point to be investigated by arguments, but what has been ascertained by experience.