Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

book in which he cites the opinion of the Pythagorean school, according to

which these cosmical bodies are supposed to be planets having long periods of revolution. (Aristot., i., 6, 2.) This Pythagorean doctrine, which, according to the testimony of Apollonius Myndius, was still more ancient, having originated with the Chaldeans, passed over to the Romans, who in this instance, a...