From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:41:40 -0800, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
   > There is an essay between Ptolemy and Copernicus that points out   
   > that, if you take Plato's description of the demiurge forming the   
   > planets around the central fire and compare the ratios of their   
   > distances from such fire to the ratios of the mean distance of the   
   > actual planets from the Sun, they agree well enough to suggest that   
   > Plato is, in fact, a heliocentrist.   
      
   As I recall, according to that theory, the “Central Fire” was not the   
   Sun; the Sun also revolved around that “Fire”, along with the planets.   
      
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