"Plato states it as ...a novelty that the earth does not require ...support ...to keep it in its place. ...Anaxagoras had not been able to shake himself free of that idea, and Demokritos still held it."

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John Burnet, Early Greek philosophy (1892) Ch. VII The Pythagoreans, p. 345. Footnote:The primitive character of the astronomy taught by Demokritos as compared with that of Plato is the best evidence of the value of the Pythagorean researches.