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
He saw a wheel, an enormous wheel, immense as a terrestrial sphere, its upper part lost in cloud, its lower arc merging in the sidereal dust which glittered in the darkness of the heavens.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances
On the side of the terrestrial sphere nothing was to be seen.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Verne, Jules
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
