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| (5) Et restricta fuit questio ad hoc, tanquam ad principium investigande veritatis, ut quereretur utrum aqua in spera sua, hoc est in sua naturali circumferentia, in aliqua parte esset altior terra que emergit ab aquis et quam comuniter quartam habitabilem appellamus. | (5) And the discussion was limited to this inquiry (as the principle of the truth to be investigated) 'Whether water, in its own sphere, that is in its natural circumference, was in any part higher than the earth which emerges from the waters, and which we commonly call the habitable quarter.' |