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197: 138: 98:"it is too absurd to say, that some men might have taken ship and traversed the whole wide ocean, and crossed from this side of the world to the other, and that thus even the inhabitants of that distant region are descended from that one first man." 151: 55: 156: 223: 76:, the northern and southern; those who inhabited one of these hemispheres were said to be antichthones to those of the other. This idea was expounded by 80:
and other Classical authors, though Christian writers, who believed that all people on earth must be descended from
172:"Philip Schaff: NPNF1-02. St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine - Christian Classics Ethereal Library" 107: 228: 218: 17: 84:, denied the possibility that any southern land, if it existed, could be inhabited by humans. 202: 141: One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the 8: 171: 94: 89: 85: 147: 112: 61: 65: 77: 54: 41: 212: 142: 117: 33: 29: 69: 73: 37: 157:
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
81: 192: 210: 224:Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography 160:(1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. 164: 68:considered the Earth to be divided by the 146: 88:, arguing from a position of scriptural 211: 32:, are those peoples who inhabit the 36:, regions on opposite sides of the 13: 53: 14: 240: 195: 136: 108:Antichthon (hypothetical planet) 40:. The word is compounded of the 130: 1: 123: 7: 101: 10: 245: 15: 16:Not to be confused with 58: 203:Ancient Greece portal 57: 229:Mythological peoples 219:History of geography 86:Augustine of Hippo 59: 148:Chambers, Ephraim 236: 205: 200: 199: 198: 187: 186: 184: 182: 168: 162: 161: 140: 139: 134: 113:Early world maps 47:("opposed") and 244: 243: 239: 238: 237: 235: 234: 233: 209: 208: 201: 196: 194: 191: 190: 180: 178: 170: 169: 165: 137: 135: 131: 126: 104: 92:, wrote in his 66:Medieval Europe 21: 12: 11: 5: 242: 232: 231: 226: 221: 207: 206: 189: 188: 163: 152:"Antichthones" 150:, ed. (1728). 128: 127: 125: 122: 121: 120: 115: 110: 103: 100: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 241: 230: 227: 225: 222: 220: 217: 216: 214: 204: 193: 177: 173: 167: 159: 158: 153: 149: 144: 143:public domain 133: 129: 119: 116: 114: 111: 109: 106: 105: 99: 97: 96: 91: 87: 83: 79: 75: 71: 67: 63: 56: 52: 50: 46: 43: 39: 35: 31: 27: 23: 19: 181:February 20, 179:. Retrieved 176:www.ccel.org 175: 166: 155: 132: 93: 60: 48: 44: 26:Antichthones 25: 24: 22: 118:Mappa mundi 95:City of God 74:hemispheres 51:("earth"). 213:Categories 124:References 18:autochthon 90:inerrancy 72:into two 62:Classical 34:antipodes 30:geography 102:See also 145::  70:equator 42:Greek 38:Earth 28:, in 183:2024 82:Adam 78:Mela 64:and 49:χθών 45:ὰντὶ 215:: 174:. 154:. 185:. 20:.

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autochthon
geography
antipodes
Earth
Greek

Classical
Medieval Europe
equator
hemispheres
Mela
Adam
Augustine of Hippo
inerrancy
City of God
Antichthon (hypothetical planet)
Early world maps
Mappa mundi
public domain
Chambers, Ephraim
"Antichthones"
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
"Philip Schaff: NPNF1-02. St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine - Christian Classics Ethereal Library"
Ancient Greece portal
Categories
History of geography
Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography
Mythological peoples

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