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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In Pythagorean astronomy, an imaginary invisible planet continually opposing the earth and eclipsing the central fire, round which it was supposed to revolve, in common with the earth, moon, sun, certain planets, and the fixed stars.
  2. n. plural The inhabitants of an opposite hemisphere.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun.
  2. n. Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres.

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  • “No longer will you see the antichthon of Plato, the focus of Philolaüs, the spheres of Aristotle, or the seven heavens of the Jews with the great waters above the vault of crystal! ”

    Tentation de saint Antoine. English

  • “The Pythagoreans, on the other hand, attributed perfection to the number ten; but agreed in thinking that the perfect number must be somehow realized in the heavens; and knowing only of nine heavenly bodies, to make up the enumeration, they asserted “that there was an _antichthon_, or counter-earth, on the other side of the sun, invisible to us.” (”

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive

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  • whichbe Hypothetical second Earth on the opposite side of the sun. (from Phrontistery) May 22, 2008

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