Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of counter-earth.
The central fire is at the center of the universe, followed by antichthon—the counterearth— and finally Earth.
1979, Gerald E. Tauber, Man's view of the universe, page 432 more examples
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.
2004, Jean Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul, A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics, page 7And 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).
2014, Simplicius, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens, page 51
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