A lengthier demonstration goes as follows. In its passage over the inland parts of Libya [17,25] (nation), Africa Libya , the sun does this: as the air is always clear in that region, the land warm, and the winds cool, the sun does in its passage exactly as it would do in the summer passing through the middle of the heaven:
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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