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roit plus en parfont. mais tantost revendroit
amont si qu'elle seroit ou milieu de la terre. Ne
jamais ne se mouveroit d'illec. Car lors seroit el-
le egalement par tout ensus de firmament qui a
des tourne et jour et nuit. Et par la vertu de son
tour ne poeut riens approchier de lui qui soit pe-
sant. Ainchois se retiere tousjours dessus dont
vous povez veoir la nature et entendement sans
aucune deffaillance par ceste presente figure:

[image: Title: Roundness of the earth: distance traveled by stones cast to the center of the earth
Form: Diagram, 9 lines]

ET se la terre
estoit percee
en deux dont l'un
ertrins fut tren-
chie en l'aultre pa-
reillement comme
une croix et quant
hommes fussent
tous droits aux
quatre chiefs de ches deux pertrins l'un dessus et
l'aultre dessoubz si getast chascun sa pierre dedens
quelle qu'elle fust ou grande ou petite chascune


Translation

fall further, but as it would soon
rise back up so that it was in the middle of the earth.
And never would it move from there. Because in that
place it would be encircled on all sides by the firmament,
which circles around it day and night. And by the virtue
of its turning, nothing can approach it [the firmament]
that has weight, but rather it would always remain above
everything. You can see the nature of it without
fail by looking at this figure.
And if the earth
were cut into
two, of which
a trench was made
in one and equally
so in the other,
like a cross,
and four men walked
in the four directions
of these two trenches,
one above and one below,and if each of them were to
throw a stone downwards, whether large or small, each

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roit plus en parfont. mais tantost revendroit
amont si qu'elle seroit ou milieu de la terre. Ne
jamais ne se mouveroit d'illec. Car lors seroit el-
le egalement par tout ensus de firmament qui a
des tourne et jour et nuit. Et par la vertu de son
tour ne poeut riens approchier de lui qui soit pe-
sant. Ainchois se retiere tousjours dessus dont
vous povez veoir la nature et entendement sans
aucune deffaillance par ceste presente figure:

[image: Title: Roundness of the earth: distance traveled by stones cast to the center of the earth
Form: Diagram, 9 lines]

ET se la terre
estoit percee
en deux dont l'un
ertrins fut tren-
chie en l'aultre pa-
reillement comme
une croix et quant
hommes fussent
tous droits aux
quatre chiefs de ches deux pertrins l'un dessus et
l'aultre dessoubz si getast chascun sa pierre dedens
quelle qu'elle fust ou grande ou petite chascune


Translation

fall further, but as it would soon
rise back up so that it was in the middle of the earth.
And never would it move from there. Because in that
place it would be encircled on all sides by the firmament,
which circles around it day and night. And by the virtue
of its turning, nothing can approach it [the firmament]
that has weight, but rather it would always remain above
everything. You can see the nature of it without
fail by looking at this figure.
And if the earth
were cut into
two, of which
a trench was made
in one and equally
so in the other,
like a cross,
and four men walked
in the four directions
of these two trenches,
one above and one below,and if each of them were to
throw a stone downwards, whether large or small, each