‖ antichthon
(ænˈtɪkθəʊn)
[Gr. ἀντίχθων, prop. adj. (sc. γῆ earth), f. ἀντί opposite to + χθών the earth, ground.]
A (hypothetical) second Earth on the opposite side of the sun.
| 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 391/2 The tenth is Antichthon, an Earth above, or opposite to ours. 1693 Phil. Trans. XVII. 805 Placing..the Moon as an Antichthone or opposite Earth enlightned by the Sun. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Pythagoras and his disciples asserted an Antichthon. 1865 Grote Plato I. i. 13 An hypothetical body, called the Antichthon or Counter-Earth. |