e in our position, which Jon Flanagan Drakter proves that the Carli Lloyd Drakter earth is convex and spherical. It is absurd, too, to maintain that the earth rests on the air because of its size, and then Michael Bradley Drakter to say that impact upwards from below shakes it right through. Besides he gives no account of the circumstances attendant on earthquakes: for not every country or every season is subject to them.
Democritus says that the earth is full of water and that when a quantity of rain-water is added to this an earthquake is the result. The hollows in the earth Matias Kranevitter Drakter being unable to admit the excess of water it forces its way in and so causes an earthquake. Or again, the earth as it dries draws the water from the fuller to the emptier parts, and the inrush of the water as it changes its place causes Raphael Guerreiro Drakter the earthquake.
Anaximenes says that the earth breaks Hugo Campagnaro Drakter up when it grows wet or dry, and earthquakes are due to the fall of these masses as they break away. Hence earthquakes take place in times of drought and again of heavy rain, since, as we have explained, the earth grows dry in time of drought and breaks up, whereas Jherson Vergara Drakter the rain makes it sodden and destroys its cohesion.
But if this were the case the earth ought James Rodriguez Drakter to be found to be sinking in many places. Again, why do earthquakes frequently occur in places which are not excessively subject Jesus Manuel Corona Drakter to drought or rain, as they ought to be on the theory? Besides, on this view, earthquakes Adnan Januzaj Drakter ought always to be getting fewer, and should come to an end entirely some day: the notion of contraction by packing together implies this. So this is impossible the theory must be impossible too.
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We have already shown that wet and dry must both give rise to an evaporation: earthquakes are a necessary consequence of this fact. The earth is essentially dry, but rain fills it with moisture. Then the sun and its Jordan Rossiter Drakter own fire warm it and give rise to a quantity of wind both outside and inside it. This wind sometimes flows outwards in a single body, sometimes inwards, and sometimes it is divided. All these are necessary laws. Next we must find out what body has the greatest motive force. This will certainly be the body that naturally moves farthest and is most violent. Now that which has the most rapid motion is necessarily the most violent; for its swiftness gives its impact the greatest force. Again, the rarest body, that which can most readily pass through every other body, is that which naturally moves farthest. Wind satisfies these conditions in the highest degree (fire only becomes flame Juventus FC Drakter and moves rapidly when wind accompanies it): so that not water nor earth is the cause of earthquakes but wind-that is, the inrush of the external evaporation into the earth.
Hence, since the evaporation generally follows in a continuous body in the direction in which it first started, and either all of it flows inwards or all outwards, most earthquakes and the greatest are accompanied by calm. It is true that some take place when a wind is blowing, but this presents no difficulty. We sometimes find several winds blowing simultaneously. If one of these enters the earlinks:
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