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Earth self-balanc't

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014. 

Earth self-balanc't. Milton echoes much that is found in Ovid's account of creation (Metamorphoses 1. 18), even though Ovid's description assumes a geocentric, Ptolemaic view of the cosmos as opposed to the Copernican model supported by Galileo's observations. For Milton, perhaps, the ultimate authority is neither model, but Job 26: 7
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