βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου
boreios polos tou kosmou

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-03-24
Primary meaning north celestial pole
Literal translation northern pole of the cosmos
Variants
βόρειος πόλος τοῦ κόσμου boreios polos tou kosmou
Edited by
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/
Chicago (Author-Date)
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/
MLA (9th)
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/
Harvard
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5432,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}