Preparation for the Gospel

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903

Book 15, 56. Of the Figure of the Earth

‘THALES and the Stoics: the Earth is spherical.

‘Anaximander: it is like a stone pillar: but of the surfaces....

‘Anaximenes: like a table.

‘Leucippus: like a kettle-drum.

‘Democritus: like a disk in its extension, but hollow in the middle.’