For the views of the Reformers, see Zockler, vol.i, pp.

679 and 693.

For Calixt, Musaeus, and others, ibid., pp.

673-677 and 761.
II.

THE DELINEATION OF THE EARTH.
Every great people of antiquity, as a rule, regarded its own central city or most holy place as necessarily the centre of the earth.
The Chaldeans held that their "holy house of the gods" was the centre.
The Egyptians sketched the world under the form of a human figure, in which Egypt was the heart, and the centre of it Thebes.