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| (12) Prima dicebatur patere per Commentatorem super tertio De Anima; secunda sive minor per experientiam nautarum, qui vident, in mari existentes, montes sub se, et probant dicendo quod ascendendo malum vident eos, in navi vero non vident; quod videtur accidere propter hoc, quod terra valde inferior sit et depressa a dorso maris. | (12) The first premise was said to appear from the Commentator on the third De Anima; the second or minor from the experience of sailors, who, when at sea, observe the mountains beneath them; which they prove by saying that when they climb the mast they see them, but not when on the deck; and this they think is due to the land being far beneath them and depressed below the ridge of the sea. |