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Flammarion engraving, a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").

Allegory of the World (1515) from the studio of Joachim Patinir

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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Earth is the third planet from the Sun, it is the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. It is sometimes referred to as the world or the Blue Planet.

Titles

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) - Jules Verne

See

• Life on earth
• And yet it moves
• Chthonic
• The Last Man on Earth
• Geo-
• Geology
• Flat Earth
• Foucault pendulum
• Scum of the earth