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Cosmos: The moon shines only through the light it reflects from the sun, and that that lunar eclipses are a result of the earth blocking the sunlight in its path to the moon; he also believed the Sun to be a ball of molten iron larger than the Peloponesus. Anaximander believed the Earth to be surrounded by a series of spheres made of mist and surrounded by a big fire. They imagined the Earth to be a cylinder floating in space. Empedocles believed the cosmos to be egg-shaped and governed by alternating reigns of love and hate.