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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 14 | 14 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Metaphysics | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 23-25 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.). You can also browse the collection for 500 BC or search for 500 BC in all documents.
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS., CHAP. 59. (58.)—OR STONES THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM THE
CLOUDSI have already had occasion to remark, concerning this class of
phænomena, that there is no doubt of their actual occurrence,
although their
origin is still unexplained. . THE OPINION OF ANAXAGORAS RESPECTING
THEM. (search)
CHAP. 59. (58.)—OR STONES THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM THE
CLOUDSI have already had occasion to remark, concerning this class of
phænomena, that there is no doubt of their actual occurrence,
although their
origin is still unexplained.. THE OPINION OF ANAXAGORAS RESPECTING
THEM.
The Greeks boast that AnaxagorasThe life of Anaxagoras has been written by Diogenes Laërtius. We
have an ample account of him by Enfield in the General Biography, in
loco; he was born B.C. 500 and died B.C. 428., the Clazomenian, in
the second year of the 78th Olympiad, from his knowledge
of what relates to the heavens, had predicted, that at a certain
time, a stone would fall from the sunThere is some variation in the exact date assigned by different authors
to this event; in the Chronological table in Brewster's Encyc. vi. 420, it
is said to have occurred 467 B.C.. And the thing accordingly
happened, in the daytime, in a part of Thrace, at
the river Ægos. The stone is now to be seen, a waggonload in size
and of