This notion of an antipodal world in the southern hemisphere will have especial interest for us when we come to deal with the voyages of Vespucius.
Take the case of the Schizoea pusilla of the New Jersey pine barrens, to which we have already referred, growing in similar barrens in New Zealand, and how are we to account for their antipodal appearance upon the globe?
Besides, the fact of these similar antipodal flora was well known to many of them before this chart was issued.
His appearance is antipodal to that of the beefy, bluff, full-blooded John Bull.
His "Poems illustrative of the Scotch peasantry" are charming throughout--alive and bright with touches of real humanity, and sympathy with characters apparently antipodal to his own.
What poet is more utterly antipodalto our modern schools?
In a species of Allium, embryos have been found developing in the same individual from the egg-cell, synergids, antipodal cells and cells of the nucellus.
Mimosa, Iris and Allium, and in the last-mentioned the antipodal cells also.
The three cells at the opposite end are known as antipodal cells and become invested with a cell-wall.
The antipodal cells aid more or less in the process of nutrition of the developing embryo, and may undergo multiplication, though they ultimately disintegrate, as do also the synergidae.
The black shading expresses land having land opposite or antipodal to it.
Here the centre is the antipodal point to London, and we see the greatest quantity of water existing in one hemisphere.
For it so happens that from that point, and no other, we should behold the greatest possible quantity of land; and if we are then transferred to the opposite or antipodal point, we should see the greatest possible quantity of water.
Why couldn't the Antipodal Cousins, or the Antipodal Relations by Marriage, break their necks together with as much effect as though they were brothers?
Its turning-point reached in the antipodal turn-about in the treatment of miracles from the old to the new apologetics.
Especially remarkable is the changed front of Christian theologians toward miracles, their distinctly lowered estimate of the significance of miracle, their antipodal reverse of the long established treatment of miracles.
In this antipodal reverse of Christian thought it is quite plain that for evidential purposes the miracle is stripped of its ancient value.
This is not very far from the bright star Alpha Lyrae, and the antipodal point from which the sun is traveling is quite near to Beta Columbae.
The uprising of these accomplices was, however, the opportunity long desired by the better elements in Parisian society, and the two antipodal classes made common cause.
Before this masked dictator were two tasks as difficult in their way as any even he would ever undertake, each calling for the exercise of faculties antipodal in quality, but quite as fine as any in the human mind.
The manyantipodal and conflicting doctrines, theories, tendencies, and institutions which obtain under the all-embracing name of Hinduism, seem astonishing to every western investigator of this faith.
On their arrival at headquarters an antipodal divergence between the ideas of the King's followers and those of the conservative Brunswick was instantly developed, and the latter's command soon became nominal.
In the end, the document actually adopted and promulgated proved to be outwardly similar but inwardlyantipodal to that of Sieyes.
These strained relations between the two great Western powers were the natural consequence of their antipodal interests, and of the fact that neither was yet exhausted by war.
As they rode away the two representatives of antipodal thought discussed the scenes they had witnessed that day, which were equally new to them both, and naturally enough drew from them entirely different conclusions.
Persons whose temperamental tastes make them antipodal to one method of transcription become enthusiastic over another, irrespective of the fact that the aesthetic merits of the different procedures are equal.
Courbet was the epitome of that unstudied naturalism which is antipodal to the hypocrisies of society.
A lofty mountain: This is the Mountain of Purgatory, according to Dante's geography antipodal to Jerusalem, and the only land in the southern hemisphere.
Though occupying adjacent territory, the Jews and the Samaritans practically were far apart, antipodal races we might almost call them.
In Gethsemane we have the antipodal fact; we see the Divine Life in its far aphelion, where it touches hell itself, moving round in an awful gloom, and crossing the paths of the "powers of darkness.
And the same trait that was apparent sociologically has been exposed in this our antipodal phase of psychical research.
Satan has stolen the insignia of divinity, and is now masquerading before you as the deity; your god is really our devil,--a recognition of antipodalinversion truly worthy the Jesuitical mind!
They are also called the polar and antipodal forms of elliptic space.
Axioms of Geometry), the antipodal form is not to be termed "geometry," since any pair of coplanar straight lines intersect each other in two points.
In the polar form two straight lines in a plane always intersect in one and only one point; in the antipodal form they intersect always in two points, which are antipodes.
Similarly in the antipodal form two diameters always determine a plane, but two points on a sphere do not determine a great circle when they are antipodes, and two great circles always intersect in two points.
But, in theantipodal form, a plane is, in these respects, like a Euclidean plane.
Perhaps the most remarkable, out of a hundred possible examples of antipodal action, is furnished by the Japanese art of fencing.
And does not that very exclamation of Andromeda show how utterly antipodal the situation and the whole drama of Euripides were to modern ideas of chivalrous love?
