Hypothetical planet on the other side of the Sun from Earth.
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Examples for "antichthon"
Examples for "antichthon"
1Hicetes the Pythagorean, that there are two earths, this and the Antichthon, or the earth opposite to it.
2Some of the Pythagoreans say, that the splendor arises from the earth, its obstruction from the Antichthon (or counter-earth).
1It was, perhaps, largely to account for such eclipses that the counter-earth was invented.
2Some of the Pythagoreans say, that the splendor arises from the earth, its obstruction from the Antichthon (or counter-earth).
3Their count of the heavenly bodies, including the sphere of the fixed stars, seemed to show nine, and the counter-earth supplied the missing body.
Translations for counter-earth