"The planetary system which Aristotle attributes to "the Pythagoreans" and Aetios to Philolaos is... remarkable. The earth is no longer in the middle of the world; its place... taken by a central fire, which is not... the sun. Round this fire revolve ten bodies. First comes the Antichthon or , and next the earth, which thus becomes one of the planets. After the earth comes the moon, then the sun, the five planets, and the heaven of the fixed stars. We do not see the central fire and the antichthon because... [our] side of the earth... is always turned away from them.., explained by the analogy of the moon. ...[M]en living on the other side of it would never see the earth. ...[A]ll these bodies rotate on their axes in the same time as they revolve round the central fire."

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