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Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience, while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand. Plato holds his Timaeus and points his index finger to the heavens, representing his belief in The Forms

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"Thus one notes that the earth, by turning, makes animals and men have coitus, and (because the result is as much the cause as that which provokes it) that animals and men make the earth turn by having coitus." --Solar Anus

Titles

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) - Jules Verne
• Scum of the Earth (1963) - David Friedman and H.G. Lewis

See

• Chthonian
• The Last Man on Earth
• Geodesy
• Geology