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| (28) Et preter hanc potissimam demonstrationem, potest etiam probabiliter ostendi quod aqua non habeat gibbum extra circumferentiam regularem; quia quod potest fieri per unum, melius est quod fiat per unum quam per plura: sed totum suppositum potest fieri per solum gibbum terre, ut infra patebit; ergo non est gibbus in aqua; cum Deus et natura semper faciat et velit quod melius est, ut patet per Phylosophum primo De Celo et Mundo, et secundo De Generatione Animalium. | (28) And besides this most cogent demonstration, it can also be shown by way of probability that water would not have a hump protruding from its regular circumference; for what can be done by one, is better done by one than by several; and the whole matter before us may be effected by a hump of earth alone, as will be seen below. Therefore there is no hump in the water, since God and nature ever doeth and willeth what is better, as is clear from the Philosopher, De Caelo et Mundo, and in the second De Generatione Animalium. |