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Essays and Miscellanies

CHAPTER XIV
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INTO HOW MANY ZONES IS THE EARTH DIVIDED ?.
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Pythagoras says that, as the celestial sphere is distributed into five zones, into the same number is the terrestrial; which zones are the arctic and antarctic, the summer and winter tropics (or temperate zones), and the equinoctial; the middle of which zones equally divides the earth and constitutes the torrid zone; but that portion which is in between the summer and winter tropics is habitable, by reason the air is there temperate..


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