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Berosus, qui ab Chaldaeorum civitate sive natione progressus in Asia etiam disciplinam Chaldaicam patefecit, ita est professus: pilam esse ex dimidia parte candentem, reliqua habere caeruleo colore. cum autem cursum itineris sui peragens subierit sub orbem solis, tunc eam radiis et impetu caloris corripi convertique candentem propter eius proprietatem luminis ad lumen. cum autem ea vocata ab solis orbi superiora spectent, tunc inferiorem partem eius, quod candens non sit, propter aeris similitudinem obscuram videri. cum ad perpendiculum ea sit ad eius radios, totum lumen ad superiorem speciem retineri, et tunc eam vocari primam.
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