Meanings of be antipodes in English

Though similar on the surface, cracking the veneer reveals them to be antipodes.

Lactantius, passage quoted from, to prove the impossibility of their being antipodes.

How can they deny that there are antipodes, and other worlds than ours?

The men were antipodes in every thing except that they belonged to the same party.

To those who believed that the earth was flat it was somewhat startling to be told that there were antipodes.

Debussy acclaimed Moussorgsky enthusiastically a dozen years ago, but for all that Moussorgsky and Debussy are antipodes in art-theyrepresent extremes.

A few learned men remembered Greek proofs that the earth is round, but most people made fun of the notion that there are antipodes.