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with regard to equals or doubles or
any other ratio.” “How could it be otherwise than
absurd?” he said. “Do you not think,” said I,
“that one who was an astronomer in very truth would feel in the same
way when he turned his eyes upon the movements of the stars? He will be willing
to concede that the artisan1 of heaven fashioned it and all that it
contains in the best possible manner for such a fabric; but when it comes to the
proportions of day and night, and of their relation to the month, and that of
the month to the year, and
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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