Rasārṇavakalpa

Chapter 1.
[Concerning the world and the void outside of it, and that the center of the world is at the same time the lowest point.]

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Blf. Since the term "world" is used in many ways, the argument now before us concerns it according to its arrangement original: "διακόσμησις" - cosmos/order, which they define as follows. The world is a system of heaven, earth, and the natures contained within them. This contains all bodies, with absolutely nothing existing outside of it, as is demonstrated in other places; it is not infinite, but limited, as this is clear from it being governed by nature. For it is impossible for anything infinite to have a nature; for nature must master that which it belongs to. That it possesses a nature which governs it is known, first, from the order of the parts within it, and second, from the order of the things that come into being,

1 The author's name seems to have occupied a much larger space than is now filled by a later hand; the first letter seems to have been E: E... Cleomedes' Cyclical Theory, the first of two books. M. 2 "of meteors" omitted in L. 4 The heading of the chapter is omitted in M. 5 Concerning the world N. 7 The syllable "le" is missing due to a lacuna M. 8 "the" omitted in M. It was formerly "is," later "posthac."