CHAP. 2. (2.)—OF THE FORM OF THE WORLD [Note].
That it has the form of a perfect globe we learn from
the name which has been uniformly given to it, as well as
from numerous natural arguments. For not only does a
figure of this kind return everywhere into itself [Note] and sustain
itself, also including itself, requiring no adjustments, not
sensible of either end or beginning in any of its parts, and is
best fitted for that motion, with which, as will appear hereafter, it
is continually turning round; but still more, because
we perceive it, by the evidence of the sight, to be, in every
part, convex and central, which could not be the case were
it of any other figure.
