ANTECIANS

, or Antoeci, in Geography, the inhabitants of the earth which occupy the same semicircle of the same meridian, but equally distant from the equator, the one north and the other south; as Peloponnesus and the Cape of Good Hope.

These have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other; and summer with the one, when it is winter with the other; also the length of the day to the one, is equal to the length of night to the other.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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