It presents more or less distinctly the idea of the globular form of the earth.
The earth cannot extend indefinitely downward; for the sun cannot go through it, nor through any crevice or passage in it, Since he rises and sets in different positions at different seasons of the year.

The stars also move under it in countless courses.

There must, therefore, be a clear way beneath.
To reconcile revelation with these innovating facts, schemes, such as that of Cosmas Indicopleustes in his Christian Topography, were doubtless often adopted.

To this in particular we have had occasion on a former page to refer.

It asserted that in the northern parts of the flat earth there is an immense mountain, behind which the sun passes, and thus produces night.
At a very remote historical period the mechanism of eclipses had been discovered.