Upside Down World
Sir, —Mr Brassington might prefer to claim* the more imaginative support of Aristotle and Dante for his inverted world fliap. Aristotle, in his “De Caelo,” suggested that the South Pole should be regarded as the top of the cosmos, because if you face south the rotation of the sky is towards the right, and he considered this to be the best kind of movement and therefore the most appropriate one for his divinely controlled universe. Dante, of course, possibly with Aristotle in mind, chose the antipodes as the starting point for his dream ascent to Paradise. Surely South Island publicity need not neglect such authorities. —Yours, etc., D. A. KIDD. May 13, 1970.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32296, 14 May 1970, Page 16
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