But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
No viajaba, sino que estaba escribendo una circunferencia. Era un cuerpo grave recorriendo una órbita alrededor del globo terrestre, según las leyes de la mecánica racional.