![]() ![]() Elsewhere, however, Democritus’ earth is said to be oblong (ἡμιόλος) (DK 68B15). The concavity of Democritus’ earth does not prevent Aristotle from calling it flat (πλατεῖα) ( On the Heavens 294b15 = DK 59A88). ![]() The earth is said to be drum-shaped (τυμπανοειδῆ) according to Leucippus, and the surface of the earth is said to be disk-shaped (δισκοειδῆ μὲν τῷ πλάτει) and concave in the middle (κοίλην δὲ τῷ μέσῳ) according to Democritus and Anaxagoras (DK 67A1(30), DK 67A26 and DK 68A94). ![]() The ambiguous word στϱογγύλος in the doxographical report on Diogenes’ earth can here only mean circular, not spherical (DK 64A1). Archelaos is said to have conceived of the earth as somewhat concave in the middle (μέσον δὲ κοίλην), but generally speaking he too may be considered to have conceived of the earth as flat (DK 60A4(4)). It is reported by several sources that according to Anaxagoras, the earth is flat (πλατεῖα) (DK 59A1(8), DK 59A42(3), DK 59A47, and DK 59A87). First of all, it is important to bear in mind that almost all the Presocratics, of which we have reports about what they are supposed to have said about the shape of the earth, believed that the earth is flat. In the archaic world picture, the earth is flat and usually conceived of as a round disk. ![]()
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