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[image: Title: Roundness of the earth: men walking around circumference
Form: Diagram, 17 lines]

Mais pour la
chose mieulx
entendre et plus
clerement povez
vous entendre ung
aultre example. Se
la terre estoit parti
e droit par le milieu
si que par my la ter
re len veist le ciel
dessoubz nous et len
gettoit une pierre
dedens ou une plom
bee bien pesante.
quant elle vendroit
ou milieu de la ter
re elle se tendroit
illec droit que plus ne pourroit avaler neant
plus quelle pourroit monter en hault. fors
tant que par che quelle cherroit de si hault. lui
dourroit son poiz aucun povoir si quelle cher

But in order to understand
this matter better
and more clearly,
you may hear
another example.
If the earth were
split right through
the middle, so that
looking through the
earth one could see
the sky below us, if
someone were to throw a
stone or a very heavy
weight,
when it came to the
middle of the earth
it would be held
there completely, for it could not any go further down, any
more than it could rise upwards. If it had fallen from a great height,
then due to its weight it might have been able to

[image: Title: Roundness of the earth: men walking around circumference
Form: Diagram, 17 lines]

Mais pour la
chose mieulx
entendre et plus
clerement povez
vous entendre ung
aultre example. Se
la terre estoit parti
e droit par le milieu
si que par my la ter
re len veist le ciel
dessoubz nous et len
gettoit une pierre
dedens ou une plom
bee bien pesante.
quant elle vendroit
ou milieu de la ter
re elle se tendroit
illec droit que plus ne pourroit avaler neant
plus quelle pourroit monter en hault. fors
tant que par che quelle cherroit de si hault. lui
dourroit son poiz aucun povoir si quelle cher

But in order to understand
this matter better
and more clearly,
you may hear
another example.
If the earth were
split right through
the middle, so that
looking through the
earth one could see
the sky below us, if
someone were to throw a
stone or a very heavy
weight,
when it came to the
middle of the earth
it would be held
there completely, for it could not any go further down, any
more than it could rise upwards. If it had fallen from a great height,
then due to its weight it might have been able to