Meaning of counter-earth | Babel Free

Definitions

A hypothetical planet sharing an orbit with the earth, but on the opposite side of the sun.

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Examples

“To the same period may perhaps belong⟳ the theory that the comet is a separate⟳ planet; this eighth planet might serve⟳, when the counter-earth had been discarded, to maintain⟳ the number⟳ ten in regard to the heavenly bodies.”

“The report⟳ of Aristotle and Philip of Opus, that the higher frequency of lunar than of solar eclipses was explained by the presence of the counter-earth, and perhaps also other earth-like bodies in space, takes us into a similar context.”

“The interposition of the counter-earth between the sun and the moon is the cause of their eclipses. And just as our earth has a counter-earth, each planet has a counter-planet, a planetary companion (as Bruno would say⟳ in his later works), which revolves with the other one on the same circle but at the opposite end⟳ of its diameter.”

“Possibly to explain⟳ eclipses, and possibly to achieve⟳ for the astral world the perfection of the number⟳ Ten, Philolaus imagined that a dark Counter-Earth existed, invisible to the Earth.”

“These ten Spheres were the sun, moon, Earth, the five additional known planets at the time—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—the counter-Earth, and the central hearth.”

“His convoluted ideas, derived before the concept of the gravitational force⟳ was known, had the Earth and the counter-Earth orbiting a central fire of the universe, which was not the Sun.”

“The Earth has its counter-Earth, matter⟳ its anti-matter and each reality has its counter-reality, all of it wrapped into the Ultimate Essence.”

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