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everything downwards, and attracts to itself everything that has weight.
And therefore it is right that we too are joined to the earth and all that
comes out of it. And if it should happen that there was nothing
on the earth -- no water nor any other thing which might divert
the road in some direction away from where one wanted to go --
then men and beasts could walk the whole surface of the earth,
in any direction, to any place they wanted to go, just as a fly can walk the whole
surface of a round apple. In the same way
a person could go along the entire earth for as
long as the earth is long by nature, until he ended
up below us, and to him it would appear that we were
below him, just as he would appear to us to be. For his feet
would be extended below ours, as if they were placed against ours,
and his head would be facing the sky no more and no less
than our heads do, feet towards the earth.
And if he continued on the path before him, he would
eventually come back to the place from which he had first
started. And should it be the case that by chance two people
walked away from each other, with one always going