βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου

boreios polos tou kosmou
Greek · noun
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2025-03-24
Meanings
Literal translation
northern pole of the cosmos
Categories
cosmological concept
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. north celestial pole

1.a north celestial pole cosmological concept

Τῶν δὲ πόλων [τοῦ κόσμου] ὁ μὲν λέγεται βόρειος, ὁ δὲ νότιος, βόρειος μὲν ὁ διὰ παντὸς φαινόμενος ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἡμετέραν οἴκησιν, νότιος δὲ ὁ διὰ παντὸς ἀόρατος ὡς πρὸς τὸν ἡμέτερον ὁρίζοντα.

‘Of the [celestial] poles, one is called “northern”, the other one “southern”, northern the one that is continually visible at our home, southern the one that is continually invisible on our horizon.’

— Geminus 4.2

Genre: astronomy Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 21

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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου (Lemma #5432). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/
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Peeters, T. (2025). βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου (Lemma #5432). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/
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Peeters, T. (2025). βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου (Lemma #5432). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/
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Peeters, T. (2025) βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου (Lemma #5432), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5432,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου ({Lemma} #5432)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5432/},
}