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 from whence all things arise and are made, is not the effect of chance, or some necessity, rather than the work of reason and a divine mind. According to them, Archimedes shows more knowledge in representing the motions of the celestial globe than nature does in causing them, though the copy is so infinitely beneath the original. The shepherd in Attius, who had never seen a ship, when he perceived from a mountain afar off the divine vessel of the Argonauts, surprised and frighted at this new object, expressed himself in this manner:

At first he is in suspense at the sight of this unknown object; but on seeing the young mariners, and hearing their singing, he says,

and afterward goes on,

As at first view the shepherd thinks he sees something inanimate and insensible, but afterward, judging by more