Roger Bacon says:
“I hold that the universe has a location through coincidence; it is asked how the universe has a location through coincidence rather than through itself. This opinion is threefold: because certain men say that the universe has a location through coincidence because its parts have a location through themselves, others because its center has a location through itself. Which if this should be true, certainly first, it is seen: because Aristotle says that the parts of the universe have a location through themselves and the universe through coincidence; therefore through it has a location through coincidence because it has a location through the nature of its own parts. In reply: the greatest circumference does not have parts except parts placed near it, nor does it have anything confining it outside nor anything that contains it, and on account of this the universe is said to have a location through coincidence; therefore similarly its parts also have a location through coincidence. ”
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