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| (15) [VII]. Item arguebatur quinto: Aqua videtur maxime sequi motum lune, ut patet in accessu et recessu maris; cum igitur orbis lune sit ecentricus, rationabile videtur quod aqua in sua spera ecentricitatem imitetur orbis lune, et per consequens sit ecentrica; et cum hoc esse non possit nisi sit altior terra, ut in prima ratione ostensum est, sequitur idem quod prius. | (15) It was also argued fifthly: Water seems mainly to follow the motion of the moon, as appears by the flow and ebb of the sea. Since, then, the orbit of the moon is excentric, it seems reasonable that water in its sphere should imitate the excentricity of the orbit of the moon, and so be itself excentric; and since this could not be without its being higher than the land, as was shown in the first argument, the same conclusion follows as before. |