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Meanings of counter-earth in anglès

rus
планета глория
espanyol
antitierra
català
antichton

Hypothetical planet on the other side of the Sun from Earth.

antichton
Usage of counter-earth in anglès
1
It was, perhaps, largely to account for such eclipses that the counter-earth was invented.
A History of Science — Volume 1
2
Some of the Pythagoreans say, that the splendor arises from the earth, its obstruction from the Antichthon (or counter-earth).
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
3
Their count of the heavenly bodies, including the sphere of the fixed stars, seemed to show nine, and the counter-earth supplied the missing body.
A History of Science — Volume 1