p by a wind and fell down in the daytime-then too a comet happened to have appeared in the west. And at the time of the great comet the winter was dry and north winds prevailed, and the wave was due to an opposition of winds. For in the gulf a north wind blew and outside it a violent south wind. Again in the archonship of Nicomachus a comet appeared for a few days about the equinoctial circle (this one had not risen Gloves in the Salomon X-Scream 3D Kengät west), and simultaneously with it there happened the storm at Corinth.
That there are few comets and that they appear rarely and outside the tropic circles more than within them is due to the motion of the sun and the stars. For this motion does not only cause the hot principle to be secreted but also dissolves it when it is gathering. But the chief reason is that most Cam Fowler Jersey of this stuff collects in the region of the milky way.
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Let us now explain the origin, cause, and nature of the milky way. And here too let us begin by discussing the statements of others on the subject.
(1) Of the so-called Pythagoreans some say that this is the path of one of the stars that fell from heaven at the time of Phaethon’s downfall. Others say that the sun used once to move in this circle and that this region was scorched or met with some other affection of this kind, because of the sun and its motion.
But it is absurd not to see that if this were the reason the circle of the Zodiac ought to be affected in the same way, and indeed more so than that of the milky way, since not the sun only but all the planets move in it. We can see the whole of this circle (half of it being visible at any time of the night), but it shows no signs of any such affection except where a part of it touches the circle of the milky way.
(2) Anaxagoras, Democritus, and their schools say that the milky way is the light of certain stars. For, they say, when the sun passes below the earth some of the stars are hidden from it. Now the light of those on which the sun shines is invisible, being obscured by the of the sun. But the milky way is the Marc-Edouard Vlasic Jersey peculiar light of those stars which are Alex Galchenyuk Jersey shaded by the earth from the Balenciaga Shoes sun’s rays.
This, too, is obviously impossible. The milky way is always unchanged and among the same constellations (for it is clearly a greatest circle), whereas, Dylan Larkin Jersey since the sun does not remain in the same place, what is hidden from it differs at different times. Consequently with the change of the sun’s position the milky way ought to change its position too: but we find that this does not happen. Besides, if astronomical Christopher Tanev Jersey demonstrations are correct and the size of the sun is greater than that of the earth and the distance of the stars from the earth many times greater than that of the sun (just as the sun is further from the earth than the moon), then the cone made by the rays Marcus Johansson Jersey of the sun would terminate at no great distance from the earth, and the shadow of the earth Jaromir Jagr Jersey (what we call night) would not reach the Peter Budaj Jersey stars. On the contrary, New York Rangers Jersey the sun shines on all the stars and the earth screens none of them.
(3) There is a third theory links:
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