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| (73) Et cum ista terra detecta extendatur a linea equinoctiali usque ad lineam quam describit polus zodiaci circa polum mundi, ut superius dictum est, manifestum est quod virtus elevans est illis stellis que sunt in regione celi istis duobus circulis contenta, sive elevet per modum attractionis, ut magnes attrahit ferrum, sive per modum pulsionis, generando vapores pellentes, ut in particularibus montuositatibus. | (73) And since the exposed land stretches from the equinoctial line to the line which the pole of the zodiac describes round the pole of the universe, as was said above, it is manifest that the lifting virtue is in those stars which are in the region of heaven contained between those two circles, whether it elevates it by way of attraction, as the magnet attracts iron, or by way of impulsion, by generating vapours that force it up, as in the case of special mountain ranges. |