“What (saith he) are they that thinke there are Antipodes, such as walke with their feet against ours? doe they speake any likelyhood? or is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are men whose heeles are higher than their heads? that things which with us doe lie on the ground doe hang there? that the Plants and Trees grow downewards, that the haile, and raine, and snow fall upwards to the earth? and doe wee admire the hanging Orchards amongst the seven wonders, whereas here the Philosophers have made the Field and Seas, the Cities and Mountaines hanging.” What shall wee thinke (saith hee in _Plutarch_) that men doe clyng to that place like wormes, or hang by their clawes as Cats, or if wee suppose a man a little beyond the Center, to bee digging with a spade? is it likely (as it must bee according to this opinion) that the earth which hee loosened, should of it selfe ascend upwards? or else suppose two men with their middles about the center, the feete of the one being placed where the head of the other is, and so two other men crosse them, yet all these men thus situated according to this opinion should stand upright, and many other such grosse consequences would follow (saith hee) which a false imagination is not able to fancy as possible. Upon which considerations, _Bede_[3] also denies the being of any Antipodes, _Neque enim Antipodarum ullatenus est Fabulis accommodandus assensus_, “Nor should wee any longer assent to the Fable of Antipodes.” So also _Lucretius_ the Poet speaking of the same subject, sayes: _Sed vanus stolidis hæc omnia finxerit error._[4] [Sidenote 1: _De civit. Dei. lib. 16. cap. 9._] [Sidenote 2: _Institut. l. 3. c. 24._] [Sidenote 3: _De ratione temporum, Cap. 32._] [Sidenote 4: _De nat. rerum, lib. 1._]