Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by George Grote, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Plato's Doctrine respecting the rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment upon that Doctrine: Look inside the book: Gruppe has endeavoured, upon the evidence9 of this passage, supported by other collateral proofs, to show that Plato, towards the close of his life, arrived at a belief, first, in the rotation of the earth round its own axis, next, at the double movement of the earth, both rotation and translation, round the sun as a centre (that is, the heliocentric or Copernican system): that Plato was the first to make this discovery, but that he was compelled to announce it in terms intentionally equivocal and obscure, for fear of offending the religious sentiments of his contemporaries ('Die kosmischen Systeme der Griechen, von O. ...This explanation must be the true one required by the context: this is Plato's meaning, plainly and without disguise: for he has said, a few lines before, that Night and Day (that is, a sidereal day, or day of time) is a diurnal revolution of the Heaven from East to West, whereby accordingly the Earth is assumed as at rest: And this diurnal movement of the Heaven he has taught over and over again in the preceding part of his discourse." - "Since therefore Plato calls the Earth, not, but, he implies thereby the diurnal movement of the Heaven." ...Boeckh, in a discussion of some length (Untersuch. p. 76-84), maintains the opinion that the reading in the first passage of Aristotle is incorrect; that the two words ought to stand in the first as they do in the second, - as he thinks that they stood in the copy of Simplikius: that Aristotle only made reference to Plato with a view to the peculiar word, and not to the general doctrine of the rotation of the earth: that he comments upon this doctrine as held by others, but not by Plato - who (according to Boeckh) was known by everyone not to hold it. About George Grote, the Author: His father, another George, married (1793) Selina, daughter of Henry Peckwell (1747-1787), minister of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Westminster, and his wife Bella Blosset (descended from a Huguenot officer Salomon Blosset de Loche who left the Dauphine on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and had one daughter and ten sons, of whom George was the eldest. ...In April 1822 he published in the Morning Chronicle a letter against George Canning's attack on Lord John Russell, and edited, or rather re-wrote, some discursive papers of Bentham, which he published under the title Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind by Philip Beauchamp (1822).