terrestrial sphere
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Every day our terrestrial sphere revolves into and out of the sun’s light, irrespective of what we on its surface codify into laws and regardless of what numbers we display on our clocks.
From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2022
The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then follows a description of the constitution of the sublunar world, the terrestrial sphere consisting of part earth, part water, and being surrounded by the successive spheres of air and fire.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
It had at last re-entered that zone of the terrestrial sphere in which at one period of the year the sun does not set.
From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.
In one corner was a large terrestrial sphere: near it was an astrolabe, and near that a heap of disused glass vessels.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
