Meaning of counterearth | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The central fire is at the center of the universe, followed by antichthon—the counterearth— and finally Earth.”

“Nearest to the central fire revolves a body called the counterearth. which always accompanies the earth, the earth's orbit coming next to that of the counterearth: next to the earth, reckoning in order⟳ from the central fire outward, come⟳ the moon, the sun, the five planets, and last⟳ of all, ooutside the orbits of the planets, the sphere of the fixed stars.”

“And they say⟳ that the counterearth, which is an earth, moves around the centre (they call⟳ it the counterearth because it lies opposite to this earth), and they say⟳ that the earth comes after the counterearth and it, too, moves around the centre and the moon comes after the earth (this is what he recounts in hiis work⟳ on the Pythagoreans).”

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