From the comments I have seen on this thread, I gather that Augustine must
have written about the antipodeans in several places and given a variety
of reasons. Another place where he wrote about them is in City of God,
Book XVI, Chapter 9. He seemed to think that the other side of the earth
was probably entirely ocean, but if there was land anywhere there, it was
too far away for man to have sailed there.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 dfsiemensjr@juno.com wrote:
> However, Augustine wrote of the Antipodeans, so there must have been some
> theory in the fourth century that men were widely dispersed. Augustine
> thought their existence erroneous because they would fall off. After all,
> _everybody_ knows you can stand on the floor but not on the ceiling.
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