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
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
The changes are in the terrestrial sphere; the heavenly is fixed for ever the same.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
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
