Sacred Texts: The Classics

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book II: Chapter 5

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Now there are two ways of moving along a circle, from A to B or from A to C, and we have already explained that these movements are not contrary to one another. But nothing which concerns the eternal can be a matter of chance or spontaneity, and the heaven and its circular motion are eternal. We must therefore ask why this motion takes one direction and not the other.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book II: Chapter 5

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