There are also bodies of an earthy nature9 in the place occupied by the stars, and carried along with them in their motion. He says that the stars do not move under the earth as others have supposed, but around the earth,10 just as a cap is moved about the head. And the sun is hidden not by going underneath the earth, but because it is covered by some of the higher parts of the earth, and because of its greater distance from us. The stars do not give forth heat because they are so far away. And he flourished about the first year of the fifty-eighth Olympiad.
Motion also exists from eternity.
He declared that the sun is earth because of its swift motion,' and it has the proper amount of heat. Dox . 531. Anaximenes of Miletos, son of Eurystratos, declared that air is the first principle of things, for from this all things arise and into this they are all resolved again. He uses these words 'air' and 'wind' synonymously. Infinite worlds exist in the infinite in every cycle.