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Single Idea 1787

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology ]

Full Idea

Philolaus was the first person to affirm that the earth moves in a circle.

Gist of Idea

Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle

Source

report of Philolaus (On the Cosmos (lost) [c.435 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 08.Ph.3

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.372