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| (51) Et quod terra emergat per gibbum et non per centralem circumferentiam, indubitabiliter patet, considerata figura terre emergentis; nam figura terre emergentis est figura semilunii, qualis nullo modo esse posset si emergeretur secundum circumferentiam regularem sive centralem. | (51) And that the earth emerges in a hump and not by its central circumference is clear when we consider the shape of the emerging land; for the figure of the emergent land is the figure of a half-moon, which could not possibly be the case if it emerged in accordance with its regular or central circumference; |