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Preparation for the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903
Book 15, 24. On the Magnitude of the Sun
‘ANAXIMANDER: the Sun itself is equal to the Earth, but the orbit from which it breathes out its fire, and by which it is carried round, is twenty-seven times as large as the Earth.
‘Anaxagoras: many times as large as Peloponnesus.
‘Heracleitus: the breadth of a man’s foot.
‘Epicurus again says that the aforesaid descriptions are all possible: or else that it is of the same size as it appears, or a little greater or less.’