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They all held to the idea that the heavenly bodies revolved around the earth, and that the earth was a plain; but they explained eclipses, and supposed that the moon derived its light from the sun.

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  1. noun The land surface of the world.
  2. noun The softer, friable part of land; soil, especially productive soil.
  3. noun The third planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 365.26 days at a mean distance of approximately 149 million kilometers (92.96 million miles), an axial rotation period of 23 hours 56.07 minutes, an average radius of 6,378 kilometers (3,963 miles), and a mass of approximately 5.974 × 1024 kilograms (1.317 × 1025 pounds).
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  1. Middle English erthe, from Old English eorthe; see er-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early mod English also erth; from Middle English erthe, eorthe, from Anglo-Saxon eorthe = Old Saxon ertha, erdha = OFries. erthe, irthe, erde, NFries. yerd = Middle Dutch erde, aerde, Dutch aarde = Middle Low German erde = Old High German erda, erdha, Middle High German G. erde = Icelandic Jördh = Swedish jord = Danish jord = Gothic (Moesogothic) airtha, earth (Old Teutonic *ertha, in L. as Hertha, as the name of a goddess); allied to Old High German ero, earth, Icelandic jörfi, gravel, Greek ἒρα-ζε, to the earth, on the ground. Usually, but without much probability, referred to the √*ar, plow, whence ear, earth, eard, arable, etc.
  2. = Low German erden = Icelandic jardha = Swedish jorda = Danish jorde, transitive, earth, bury; from the noun.
  3. English dial., from ear, plow, + -th, noun-formative; early record is wanting, but eard, q. v., in the sense of ‘plowing’ (Old High German art), is nearly the same word.
 

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