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Meanings of counter-earth in English

Russian
планета глория
Spanish
antitierra
Catalan
antichton

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

планета глория
Synonyms
Examples for "antichthon"
Examples for "antichthon"
1
Hicetes the Pythagorean, that there are two earths, this and the Antichthon, or the earth opposite to it.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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
Usage of counter-earth in English
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
Translations for counter-earth
Catalan
antichton